Books
Photographs 1941-2013
Seven decades of Keld Helmer-Petersen’s quietly pioneering abstract color photography
Denmark’s best-known photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen (1920–2013) published his first photobook, 122 Colour Photographs in 1948. His work was immediately notable for its inventive composition, which turned landscapes and buildings into abstract patterns, and for the photographer’s embrace of color at a time when only black-and-white photography was considered serious. “Keld Helmer-Petersen: Photographs 1941–2013” offers a full retrospective of the photographer’s masterful work over the course of seven decades. Each chapter is introduced with a short text by Helmer-Petersen himself, and publication concludes with an interview with the photographer conducted by Martin Parr.
Publisher: Strandberg Publishing, Copenhagen. Introduction by Mette Sandbye. Essay by Finn Thrane. Interview by Martin Parr.
The Black Serial
Keld Helmer-Petersens last three books, Black Noise (2010). Back to Black (2011) and Black Light (2014) are the result of the poetry he picked up from the scanner. Layout: Michael Jensen / Technique: Jens Frederiksen / Publisher: Rocket Gallery, London. All three books can be purchased by The Cinnober Bookshop and Gallery.
122 Colour Photographs - calendar
A perpetual calendar with 13 photographs from the iconic book 122 Colour Photographs, published in Copenhagen 1948. The calendar can be purchased by The Bookshop of the Royal Danish Library.
Back to Black
Rocket Gallery offers signed copies of the the second book in the Black Serial: Back to Black.