Dominic Büttner Dreamscapes

Exploring the eeriness of our everyday surroundings at night

Dreamscapes is a long-term artistic series by Swiss photographer Dominic Büttner. In it, Büttner records performances at night, both in natural and built environments. Holding a torch, he walks slowly away from a large-format view camera as a time exposure captures the scene, illuminated by moving light from which the artist himself is subsequently erased. By turns strange and yet somehow familiar, the fascinating landscapes show what an eerie place our everyday surroundings can be, depending on the light in which we experience them.

Dominic BüttnerDreamscapes is the first book to collect Büttner's art, and it features some eighty of his Dreamscapes alongside an introduction by Nadine Olonetzky and an essay by Elisabeth Bronfen.

Autorentext

Dominic Büttner, geboren 1964 in Basel, besuchte von 1986 bis 1990 die Fotofachklasse Vevey EAA und arbeitet seit 1992 als selbstständiger Fotograf in Zürich.

Jean Perret ist Direktor des Departements Film an der Haute École d'art et de design (HEAD) in Genf und Autor zahlreicher Essays über Fotografie.

Zusammenfassung

Exploring the eeriness of our everyday surroundings at night