Annette Kelm2006
by Susanne Pfeffer
Tomato Target takes a comprehensive look at the unique artistic work of Annette Kelm and the visual idiom she has developed over the course of her career. The publication contextualizes Kelm's profound practice that deftly probes the medium of photography and portrays a simultaneously heterogeneous yet decisive use of subjects to signify and act as telling abstractions within her visually opulent object worlds. Her photographs show precise, fractious motifs that quote the genre of still life, studio, or architectural photography without fully complying with the conventions that govern these genres. Tomato Target provides an introduction by the editor and curator Nicolaus Schafhausen, boasts contributions by Vanessa Joan Müller and Anna Voswinckel, as well as installation views of the...