Josef Hoflehner (born 1955) is an Austrian photographer known for his dramatic black-and-white landscape and subtle color images.[1] He is also known for his "Jet Airliner" series—mostly high-key photographs of people on Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, overshadowed by low-flying passenger planes taking off and landing at Princess Juliana International Airport.[2][3][4] He was voted Nature Photographer of the Year 2007,[5] and named as one of "Austria's 10 Best Contemporary Artists" in 2014.[6]

Photobooks

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  • Southern Ocean (2002)
  • Frozen History (2003)
  • Gegendum (2004)
  • Unleashed (2005)
  • Yemen (2006)
  • Iceland (2006)
  • Unleashed Two (2007)
  • Big Island (2008)
  • Li River (2008)
  • Nine 9 (2008)
  • China (2009)
  • Jet Airliner. Wels, Austria: Most, 2009. ISBN 9783902600066.
  • Unleashed 3 (2010)
  • ZNZ: Zanzibar (2011)
  • Jet Airliner: the Complete Works. Wels, Austria: Most, 2012. ISBN 978-3902600110.[7]
  • Retrospective 1975 - 2015 (2015 teNeues)

Exhibitions

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  • Frozen History, Atlas Gallery, London, 2006[8]
  • Sublime, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010[9]

References

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  1. ^ "'Patience' for the perfect image". CNN. Archived from the original on March 9, 2013.
  2. ^ Teicher, Jordan G. (June 3, 2014). "Plane Landings on This Island Are Insane". Slate Magazine.
  3. ^ "This Is What It Looks Like When Planes Land Right Over Your Head". Huffington Post. 14 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Scary Runway Forces Planes to Land Close to Beach (PHOTOS) - weather.com". www.weather.com. Archived from the original on 2014-06-19.
  5. ^ "Professional Winner Page". Photoawards.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  6. ^ Safronova, Valeriya (29 July 2014). "A Guide to Vienna's Best Contemporary Artists". Culture Trip.
  7. ^ "Photo-Op: In Plane Sight". Wall Street Journal. 11 January 2013. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  8. ^ "Catch this: photographer Josef Hoflehner". The Daily Telegraph. 4 February 2006. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  9. ^ "Art Review: Josef Hoflehner at Stephen Cohen Gallery". Los Angeles Times. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
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