Gift Set - René Groebli, The Eye of Love & Rail Magic: 143 CHF I -25%
Publisher: Sturm & Drang Publishers
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This special gift set includes: the books The Eye of Love (2024) and Rail Magic (2017) by René Groebli, with a set of 2 A5 postcards from his renowned The Eye of Love series.
On the book The Eye of Love:
Limited edition of 100.
First published in 1954, the photo book The Eye of Love by Swiss photographer René Groebli is a small book featuring images that were made during the honeymoon with his wife Rita in France.
I tried to convey the typical atmosphere of French hotel rooms. There were so many impressions: the poor-looking furniture in a cheap hotel, the word «Amors» embroidered on the curtains. And I was in love with the girl, the girl who was my wife. I think a series of photographs should be compared with a novel or even a poem rather than a painting: let us tell something!
René Groebli
Text in English only. If you wish to buy the set with Das Auge der Liebe instead of The Eye of Love, please write an email at: info@bildhalle.ch.
74 photographs, taken with either a Leica III F with one single lens (Elmar 50 mm, 1:3.5) or with the old twin-lens Rolleiflex.
In 1949 René Groebli shot a series of images around and on top of trains in France. His working style was stimulated by his experiences with moving images, his fascination with movies. In many experiments he tried to express the dynamism of movement in single photographs. Lasting experiences – like his first train journey from Zurich to Paris – brought him to a city in which he immersed fully in the themes of romanticism and movement in the atmosphere of the French steam trains.
With a fresh perception, René Groebli started for this edition from the 15 photographs of the first publication and fashioned this new selection of 74 images, a sort of gem from the beginnings of the Subjektive Fotografie as a remembrance of the times when the smell of soot and of smoke intensified the magic between black and white, between Paris and Zurich.
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