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Requiem för en Hag

From the poetry of the pasture fence. Swiss photographer Mäddel Fuchs has fulfilled a long held dream and published a touching picture book, which deals with a theme: named to the fence, and Hag. In it, he conquered with great poetic imagery literally new terrain.

"The man takes possession of the landscape, but the landscape also takes possession of man. The man outside the designed landscape, landscape design, but the people inside. This mutual relationship is home, man is part of his landscape "

Emil Egli

remarkable about the law at first unspectacular invasion. The resulting images, all black and white, taken in the winter, emit an unexpected dignity from that unfolds in the interaction of man and nature. The accentuation of contrasts, vanishing points and Shadows are each photograph is a poetic depth to which one can immerse oneself in a long time looking at it on an almost spiritual way.

"Häge were just there. . To displace Wahrnembar or slightly "

Mäddel Fuchs

addition to the artistic treatment of this Swiss topos that this picture book makes interesting about the country's borders, has" Hag to Hag "is also a second meaning: the documentation of a piece of Swiss cultural history that is about to disappear. During the slow scrolling of the band is striking that the Häge be less and less. And in the end is an empty snow-covered landscape.









Mäddel fox Hag to Hag. A Requiem. Zurich: Bilger Verlag 2010, 170 pages, 57 €.