Title: Birkenhof
Artist: Alain Roux
Editions FP&CF
16 x 23 cm
324 pages including a 16-page text book
Canvas hardcover book, three-sided hot stamping with embossing and depositing of two photos
Design by Claire Schwartz
Afterword by Frantz Anton Cramer
French, English & German
July 2022
ISBN: 970-10-91366-37-3
The objects that we have throughout our lives are so many markers of the times and eras that we go through, that they alone reveal the personalities of their owners.
Alain Roux, a French photographer established in Germany, testifies in “Birkenhof“ to this sentimental attachment to things: in 2013, he left Berlin with his family to settle in his wife’s family home, in Birkenhof, a hamlet located a hour by train from Munich. The 19th century building, a former Bavarian farm, imposes itself by its size and the green land that surrounds it. When entering the premises for the first time, the photographer is struck by the number of objects accumulated throughout the last century.
– From the publisher’s website
The objects that we have throughout our lives are so many markers of the times and eras that we go through, that they alone reveal the personalities of their owners.
Alain Roux, a French photographer established in Germany, testifies in “Birkenhof“ to this sentimental attachment to things: in 2013, he left Berlin with his family to settle in his wife’s family home, in Birkenhof, a hamlet located a hour by train from Munich. The 19th century building, a former Bavarian farm, imposes itself by its size and the green land that surrounds it. When entering the premises for the first time, the photographer is struck by the number of objects accumulated throughout the last century.
– From the publisher’s website
