Gift Set - Willy Spiller, Hell on Wheels & Zürich

188 CHF I -25%
2025
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Gift Set - Willy Spiller, Hell on Wheels & Zürich: 188 CHF I -25%
Publisher: Edition Bildhalle
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm & 30.5 x 24.5 cm
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This gift set includes: The books Hell on Wheels and Zürich 1967 - 1976 by Willy Spiller as well as two A5 Post Card of the image Schoolsgirls on the A Train to far Rockaway, New York, 1978.

 

On the book Hell on Wheels: 

 
Willy Spiller's legendary series of the New York Subway 1977 - 1984 in a newly published book with a new design and never before seen images.
 

In May of 1977, a 30-year-old Swiss photographer named Willy Spiller, newly arrived in New York City and recovering from the one-two punch of jetlag and a night in the notorious Chelsea Hotel, descended the steps of the city’s subway for the first time.

Beginning that week and continuing for eight years, Willy Spiller brought his camera on the subway, and he shot. He shot cops and robbers. He shot the fashionable and the indigent, commuters and kids. He shot the unpredictable dance of strangers interacting in tin-can train cars. He shot the beginnings of stories whose ends he left to our imaginations. Film was expensive so he chose his moments carefully; still, over the years, he amassed some 2,000 frames.

Bill Shapiro

Texts by Bill Shapiro & Paul Nizon. Editorial Mary Pratt. Design Edition Bildhalle.

©Photographs Willy Spiller

 

On the book Zürich 1967-1976: 

 

Limited edition of 500 
People want and love stories. On the street, stories tell themselves. The street is the great endless narrative of life. I am fascinated by street photography. Because the most appealing thing about my work as a photographer is and remains the way chance directs. Chance is the defining moment of the photographic.
Willy Spiller
 
In his book, Zürich 1967-1976, Willy Spiller illuminates life in Zurich for a brief decade from 1967 to 1976 - a decade in which the city was extremely on the move.
It was the time of the 1968 movement, a revolutionary youth that asserted itself against the establishment with new principles. A city that was in a state of upheaval and was upgrading its architecture, tearing down the old and building up the new.
Not more beautiful, but much more modern. Traffic routes that had to be made wider and faster to accommodate the rapidly increasing traffic - and today are already at their end again. People who maintained their own circles in these impetuous times, their circle of friends in Niederdorf, at Langgasse or behind the National Museum.
 
Texts by Stefan Zweifel, Carlo Spiller, Willy Spiller. Design Andreas Cavegn.
©Photographs Willy Spiller
 

 

 

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