
HR Giger by Camille Vivier
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-3-03942-116-9
- Specifications
- Hardback
26 × 35 cm
240 pages
108 colour and 71 monochrome illustrations
German / English
Edited by Beda Achermann
Text by Camille Vivier
In this volume the photographer Camille Vivier presents her recent work around the figure of the Swiss artist HR Giger, author of the legendary creature in the film Alien. Through more than two hundred pictures of Giger's private house and garden, of sculptures, paintings and objects, the book is an homage to the universe of one of the most celebrated representatives of fantastic realism. Given exclusive access to the artist's house and studio in Zurich, Vivier worked there alone with a few models for a series of sittings; besides the pictures of the studio and of the life-size sculptures, she documented a hundred or so objects and works of art. In a short text the photographer also evokes her lasting fascination with Giger's art.