In his book A-Z, Matthias Herrmann sets utensils of professional photography – color filters, photographic paper and film boxes, analog film cassettes, lenses, etc. – by means of seductive studio light in scene. Here, the means of analog photographic imaging processes themselves make their last appearances as image protagonists: they have outlived their usefulness – color filters, for example, have long since lost their function with the advent of digital photography and are relics of a bygone era. With irony and wit, with peppiness and sexiness, but also with a touch of sentimentality, Matthias Herrmann turns those things into art motifs that have long defined the medium in its daily use.

Matthias Herrmann, *1963 in Munich, Germany.  Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Riparbella, Italy.