Publications by Jürgen Baldiga, from his first book in 1980 to posthumous exhibition catalogues.
BAMBULE was published in 1986 by the Berlin-based publisher Vis-à-Vis and was Jürgen Baldiga’s first independent photo book. In this book, Baldiga shows people from his own circle as well as Berlin passers-by and chance encounters. The book marks the beginning of his public work as a photographer: direct, unsmoothed, attentive to faces, postures, and the social margins.
The photo book was published in 1987 by the Berlin-based publisher Vis-à-Vis. After BAMBULE, it was Jürgen Baldiga’s second independent photo book. The book brings together portraits of young men: friends, acquaintances, models.
The book was published in 1988 by the Berlin-based publisher Vis-à-Vis. After BAMBULE and JÜNGLINGE, it was Jürgen Baldiga’s third independent photo book. Here we find a broad range of female impersonators taking revenge on their mothers. In their self-made cosmos, they enjoy a heightened sense of life — raised quite literally by the heels — against the grey everyday world of assigned roles.
Published by Edition diá in 1992, ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD FINDEN WIR ALLEMAL was Jürgen Baldiga’s last photobook released during his lifetime. It is not a retrospective, but a condensed summary of his photographic work up to that point: portraits, bodies, poses, friends, self-images. A slim, precise book. With a text by Napoleon Seyfarth.
JÜRGEN BALDIGA – FOTOGRAFIEN was published by Edition Objektiv in 1997, accompanying the exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The catalogue brings together a broad selection from Baldiga’s photographic work and supplements it with contextual essays. As the first comprehensive survey after his death, the volume shows the range of his work: portrait, self-portrait, Berlin scene, body, everyday life, staging, document. A central catalogue for the reception of his photographic oeuvre.
Baldiga’s first publication: poetry and self-made collages, published in 1980 by Maldoror Flugschriften / Verlag Rosa Winkel.