Duration February 9th until March 16 th , 2008

Opening Event Friday, February 8 th at 7:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk Saturday, February 9 th at 6:00 p.m.

with Celina Lunsford and the photographers

Incl. Book-Signings

Concert Saturday, February 23 th , 9:00 p.m.

with Paula Rae Gibson

Workshop February 23 rd -24 th

with Wolfgang Zurborn

This exhibition highlights six current photography book releases from Kehrer Publishing in Heidelberg Germany. How to Hang a Book: 6 Case Studies enables an overview of the diverse yet clearly styled concept which a young art publisher defines itself on the contemporary international market. Each photographic project has a distinct theme and “picture language”.

Lisa Robinson 's photographs are quiet abstractions sunken in ice and snow. Traces of mankind are accented against the white landscape, lend amusement or seem like forgotten misplacements. Frank Rothe 's view of China today is twofold: large-scale portraits of everyday citizens naked, paired with spacious views of urban life. Paula Rae Gibson reveals in photographs, video and song intimate stories of her life and love lost. Andrew Phelps documents the break-up of his hometown Higley, a small farming community, via the explosive growth of Metropolitan Phoenix. Drift by Wolfgang Zurborn is a collection of the artist's signature style, curious perspectives, which incite the eyes to wander through the compositions and question our everyday environment. Drift recently was awarded the 2008 German Photography Book Prize.

Michael Ehrhart 's large scale portraits of award winning athletes for the Deutsche Sporthilfe is a very personal reflective eye to eye with the gods and goddesses of power and discipline.

Most of the chosen artists have been projects that the Fotografie Forum international has long been interested in exhibiting such as Lisa M. Robinson, Frank Rothe and Wolfgang Zurborn. At the past Frankfurt Book Fair the discovery of the latest Kehrer projects of Andrew Phelps, Paula Rae Gibson, and Michael Ehrhart became the perfect additions to create a visual “case study” of one publisher's loves and risks.

The current exhibition space at the FFI is a turn of the century Villa whose interior is formed by several unique rooms, where the different book projects will be given individual exhibition space. The Villa Sondheimer has a long history of its connection to books and literature, beginning with the philanthropist, Dr. Albert Sondheimer who through his love of literature, financed a horse drawn library for the German soldiers on front in WWI and then later through the past decade when the Villa housed the Literaturhaus Frankfurt until 2005.

Thanks to neckermann.de GmbH, Deutsche Sporthilfe, e.V., the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Friends of Fotografie Forum Frankfurt e.V. for making this exhibition possible.