{"title":"Ursula Schulz-Dornburg","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg Books and Photography\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg works at the intersection of documentary precision and conceptual form. Her photography repeatedly turns toward spaces of transition: border landscapes, waiting architectures, historical structures, and cultural environments whose social or political order is already shifting or disappearing. This gives her books a particular clarity. They are not simply records of place, but meditations on how architecture carries history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs books, this body of work becomes especially coherent. Titles such as \u003cem\u003eThe Land in Between\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYerevan 1996\/1997\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBugis Houses, Celebes\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles\u003c\/em\u003e show how Schulz-Dornburg reads the built environment as a field of use, memory, power, and erosion. Her publications move between photobook, artist book, and architectural observation without becoming overly rhetorical. Several key titles have been published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Browse all MACK Books titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e, a publisher whose editorial approach aligns closely with the rigour and restraint of her practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoviet bus stops in Armenia, disappearing cultural landscapes in the Middle East, vernacular architecture in Indonesia, improvised children's structures in post-war Amsterdam — seen together, these publications reveal a consistent photographic intelligence rather than a loose set of subjects. The collection gathered here belongs to the broader field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our full photography and photobook collection\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e at Lokator100, and offers a focused entry point into a practice defined by restraint, structure, and a sustained attention to the political life of space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in serial black-and-white photography, architectural documentation, and historically charged landscapes, Schulz-Dornburg's books form one of the more rigorous bodies of work in contemporary German conceptual photography. This collection gathers available titles in one place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey Themes and Bodies of Work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorder landscapes and spaces of transition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArchitecture as a historical trace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVernacular and improvised structures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSerial black-and-white photography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArmenia, the Middle East, Europe, and contested cultural landscapes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotobooks between document and artist publication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Ursula Schulz-Dornburg\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg, born in Berlin in 1938 and long based in Düsseldorf, is a major figure in German conceptual photography. Her work combines documentary observation, serial structure, and a restrained visual language shaped by long-term attention to architecture, political geography, and cultural memory. Across decades, she has photographed bus stops, waiting architectures, historical sites, vernacular buildings, and landscapes marked by transition or loss. Although her images are often quiet and people are frequently absent, her work remains deeply concerned with human history and with the ways power, use, and time become visible in space. Her archive was acquired by the Getty Research Institute in 2022, and her work has been shown internationally in institutions including the Städel Museum and Aedes. As a body of books, her work forms one of the clearest and most sustained photographic investigations of the built environment in contemporary European photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"huts-temples-castles-ursula-schulz-dornburg","title":"Huts, Temples, Castles – Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (Signed Edition)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles – Signed Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles\u003c\/em\u003e brings together photographs made by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ursula-schulz-dornburg\" title=\"Browse all Ursula Schulz-Dornburg titles at Lokator100\"\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg\u003c\/a\u003e in Amsterdam between 1969 and 1970. The subject is Jongensland Oost, an experimental postwar playground where children built and dismantled improvised structures — huts, towers, shelters, compounds — from salvaged materials, outside adult planning and institutional logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchulz-Dornburg does not treat these constructions as charming or incidental. She photographs them as a serious form of vernacular architecture: built, inhabited, altered, and rebuilt. The resulting series occupies an unusual position between photobook, architectural record, and artist publication. The images register material decisions and social use rather than romanticising play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead now, the work feels contemporary again — not only as a document of postwar Amsterdam but as a study of how imagination produces space before institutions define it. An essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson frames the social and spatial questions the Jongensland series raises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2022, the edition is produced as an embossed hardcover. Its restraint — in sequencing, in design, in scale — suits the material it contains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSigned edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is the signed edition of \u003cem\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles\u003c\/em\u003e. It includes an artist-signed slip bound into the inside back cover. The underlying book is the standard 2022 MACK edition; the signed slip introduces a direct trace of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg into the physical copy. For collectors of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e and artist publications, the distinction is discreet but meaningful — the archival character of the object is preserved while the copy itself becomes singular.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51681665909082,"sku":"9781913620820","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/front-cover-child-on-handmade-hut.jpg?v=1779285045"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/ursula-schulz-dornburg.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}