Frauen auf Bäumen - Hatje Cantz

A book with a bright magenta border, set against a white background. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a woman in 1920s attire standing on a tree branch. The title, Frauen auf Bäumen, is written in large magenta letters over the image.

The back cover of a book with a bright pink border, set against a plain white background. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of two smiling women sitting together on a thick tree branch. A block of German text is printed above the image, and a barcode is at the bottom.

A magenta hardcover book titled Frauen auf Bäumen, angled on a white background. The cover features a vintage black-and-white photo of a woman in a light-colored dress and hat standing on the branch of a large tree.

An overhead shot of an open book with a magenta hardcover, laid flat on a white surface. The book displays a two-page spread of black-and-white photographs, each featuring a person in a tree. The left photo shows a person in a white dress climbing a large, leafy tree, while the right photo shows a person in a skirt and top sitting on a branch of a different tree.

An open book with a magenta cover, seen from above, displays two black-and-white photographs on facing pages. Both photos feature groups of three people posing in trees. The left image shows women in early 20th-century clothing and hats, while the right image shows people in more modern, casual attire.

An open book with a vibrant magenta cover lies flat on a white surface. The left page shows a vintage black-and-white photo of two women smiling while sitting on a tree branch. The right page has the title, What Drove These Women to Climb Into Trees? by Johanna Adorján, above several paragraphs of text.

Frauen auf Bäumen

€ 18.00

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Graphic Design: Rutger Fuchs

Author: Jochen Raiß

Texts by: Johanna Adorjan

German, English

December 2024, 112 Pages

Hardcover

134mm x 184mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5833-8

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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Humorous and beautiful

"I don't understand how you can walk past a tree without being happy," says Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel The Idiot. Perhaps this thought may explain the motif of women in trees, which was popular between the 1920s and 1950s but has not yet been addressed in any book. The enthusiastic collector of anonymous photography Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) discovered these motifs on flea markets. From boxes containing numerous snapshots of other people's lives, wildly jumbled together, he pulled out black-and-white photographs of women gazing into the camera's eye from dizzying heights and in surprising poses. This new edition of the two previous titles brings together gorgeous photos that Jochen Raiß collected over twenty-five years.