EDITORIAL DESIGN
Ancelworte
24 Photographs Accompanying Paul Celan’s Word Creations
“The series ‘Ancelworte’ strips every conceivable still life of all idyll from the outset—instead, the photographic appropriation of objects points more toward ‘Nature morte,’ the French name for the genre. The images, captioned “Wortspur,” “Steinatem,” or “Wundgelesenes,” do not merely replicate the hermetic character of the depicted objects—a quality already attributed to Celan’s texts—but rather undergo a more profound transformation that stems from more than just the conversion of an object into a photograph.”—Erich Klein