Publisher: IIKKI BOOKS
ISBN: 978-2-9586157-3-4
Dimensions: 19 x 22.5 cm
Born in 1952 in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) where she lives and works, Simone Kappeler started taking pictures at the age of 11. After studying German literature and art history, she studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts. During a three-month trip to the United States in 1981, she took her first pictures using cheap cameras, especially the Diana camera.
Hasselblad, Leica, Diana, Brownie, Polaroid, disposable camera, expired or infrared films, since 1970, Simone Kappeler has explored all types of photographic techniques. Her work, experimental and poetic, reveals to us the curiously foreign world that surrounds us.
Since 1982, ongoing projects in southern France and the Grisons.1982/83, studio in New York, conceptual photography and Super 8 films. 1983/84, theater photographer, Schauspielhaus Zürich. 2009, six-week photographic study of Japan, 2015 studio in New York.
Her work was the subject of a first monograph: "Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964-2011", edited by Hatje Cantz and is regularly exhibited in Galleries and Museum in Europe and United States.
©Photographs Simone Kappeler
