
Scrapbooks 1969-1985
- Publisher
- Edition Patrick Frey
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 978-3-905929-25-6
- Specifications
- Hardcover
460 pages
224 illustrations
Edited by Martin Jaeggi
Design by Studio Achermann
Language: German
Walter Pfeiffer's scrapbooks from 1969 to 1985 are a Wunderkammer of their own kind. Pfeiffer's Polaroids and photographs alternate with found objects — newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets — and short wordplay notes. Pfeiffer assembles all this into a large collage full of surprising connections and juxtapositions, at once a visual diary and the creative humus of his artistic work. His sharp eye for eros, zeitgeist and pop culture, his irreverent humour as well as his sense for the poetry of the everyday and banal come to the fore most sharply in his scrapbooks, offering an insight into Pfeiffer's quirky, playful universe and a document that captures the zeitgeist of the 1970s and 80s with ephemeral elegance.