steidl
{{about|the publishing company|the surname|Steidl (surname)}}
{{Short description|German publishing company}}
{{Undisclosed paid|date=November 2023}}
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| founded = 1968
| founder = Gerhard Steidl
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| country = Germany
| headquarters = Göttingen
| distribution = Mohr Morawa (Austria)
AVA (Switzerland)
Distributed Art Publishers (US)
Interart, SODIS (France)
Thames & Hudson (UK){{Cite web| title = Catalogs| work = Steidl Verlag| access-date = 2017-12-03| url = https://steidl.de/Catalogs-2733384654.html}}
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| publications = Books, Photobooks
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| imprints = L.S.D. (with Karl Lagerfeld)
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Steidl is a German-language publisher based in Göttingen, Germany.{{cite web|url = http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Why-Gerhard-Steidl-I-8777.shtml | date = 13 August 2013 | access-date = 30 July 2014 | last = Walker | first = David | publisher = Photo District News | title = Why Gerhard Steidl Is a Book Publishing Master}} Founded in 1968 by Gerhard Steidl, {{cite news|first1=Rebecca|last1=Mead|access-date=2018-04-11|title=The Man Making Books an Art Form|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/gerhard-steidl-is-making-books-an-art-form|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=15 May 2017|issn=0028-792X}}{{cite web|access-date=2018-04-11|title=Q&A with Gerhard Steidl, publisher|url=https://www.ft.com/content/02eb8b14-be9b-11e4-8036-00144feab7de|website=Financial Times}} it publishes photobooks.
Overview
The company was started by Gerhard Steidl.Bill Kouwenhoven, "Off to see the wizard", British Journal of Photography, March 2010, pp. 68–71. Reproduced [http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/profile/1650310/the-book-meister-gottingen here] as "Welcome to Steidlville". Accessed 8 January 2011. The company's first book was Befragung der Documenta (1972).
From 1974, [Gerhard] Steidl added political non-fiction to his program. In the early 1980s, he expanded into literature and selected art and photography books, and in 1989, he published his first paperback editions. [...] In 1996, Steidl finally decided to follow his passion for photography and to start his own internationally oriented photo book program.{{cite web | url=http://www.steidlville.com/aboutus/ | title= About Steidl, company history from the beginning | publisher = Steidl | access-date= March 15, 2012}}
Gerhard Steidl still heads the company and is in charge of the production of every book. He endeavours to follow the preferences of the particular photographer for layout, paper, and binding, and insists on working with paper, because of the importance of the feel of the book and the difference between backlighting and reflected light. Printing, binding and all other work is done within a four-storey house on Düstere Strasse in Göttingen.
From 1996, Steidl also specialized in photography. He published the works of photographers such as Robert Frank, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Serra, Bruce Davidson, Arnold Odermatt, Edward Ruscha, Susan Meiselas, Karl Lagerfeld, Saul Leiter, Lou Reed, Martin Schoeller, Juergen Teller and many others. Advertising materials—including catalogues, flyers and invitations to haute couture shows—are produced for Chanel.{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunkkultur.de |title=Ausstellung - Die Welt eines "genialen Künstlers" |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ausstellung-die-welt-eines-genialen-kuenstlers-100.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=How to Make a Book with Steidl – if… Productions |url=https://www.ifproductions.de/projects/how-to-make-a-book-with-steidl/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |language=de-DE}} Steidl and Lagerfeld worked together from the early 1990s until his death in 2019.{{Cite news |last=Gehner |first=Christiane |date=2005-10-04 |title=Lesezeichen: Buchkunst als Handwerk |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegelspecial/a-378334.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |issn=2195-1349}} In 2006, Lagerfeld said that Gerhard Steidl was the "best printer in the world".{{Citation |title=Karl Lagerfeld - Charlie Rose |url=https://charlierose.com/videos/18250|access-date=2022-04-25}}
The number of titles produced by Steidl is unusually large for an art publisher: about three hundred a year.
Gerhard Steidl produces special editions, but prefers what he calls "'democratic books' or more 'prêt à porter' books", books that can freely be reprinted if the demand for them is sufficient. Steidl held the worldwide rights to the work of Nobel Prize Laureate Günter Grass from 1993 until Grass's death.[https://steidl.de/Artists/Guenter-Grass-0106122248.html Steidl retrieved 4 May 2015. steidl.de]
From 2009 to 2010, the Musée de l'Élysée (Lausanne) held an exhibition, The Fine Art and Craft of the Steidl Book, Lasting Impressions."[http://www.elysee.ch/no_cache/en/exhibitions/detail/article/impressions-en-continu/ Impressions en continu: Steidl l'art du livre]", Musée de l'Élysée. {{in lang|fr}} Accessed 8 January 2011.Daven Wu, "[http://www.wallpaper.com/books/the-fine-art-of-the-steidl-book/4123 The fine art of the Steidl book]", Wallpaper (magazine), 1 December 2009. Accessed 8 January 2011.
Steidl was the topic of a 2010 documentary, How to Make a Book with Steidl."[http://www.howtomakeabookwithsteidl.com How to Make a Book with Steidl]"
In 2020, Gerhard Steidl received the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz.{{Cite web|last=Kopietz|first=Thomas|date=2020-10-11|title=Verleger Gerhard Steidl aus Göttingen bekommt Gutenberg-Preis|url=https://www.hna.de/lokales/goettingen/goettingen-ort28741/verleger-gerhard-steidl-aus-goettingen-bekommt-gutenberg-preis-90066412.html|access-date=2021-11-12|website=HNA|language=de}} In 2021, Gerhard Steidl received the Award for Photographic Publishing of the Royal Photographic Society.{{Cite web |title=Gerhard Steidl als Fotobuch-Verleger geehrt |url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/news/preise-und-auszeichnungen/gerhard-steidl-als-fotobuch-verleger-geehrt-212893 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=www.boersenblatt.net |language=de}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|www.steidl.de}}
- "[http://www.egodesign.ca/en/article.php?article_id=599 Gerhard Steidl: Fine art of Steidl book + Last Impressions]" by Marie-Claire Mermoud at egodesign.ca.
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Category:1968 establishments in West Germany
Category:1972 establishments in West Germany
Category:Book publishing companies of Germany
Category:Mass media in Göttingen