• Original 1994 Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas exhibition catalogue. Front cover showing a black-and-white scanned or photocopied image: two small dog silhouettes walk across a pale ground trailing long curved lines, while large dark shadowy forms — a vertical pole left and a crouching figure lower right — dominate the foreground. Title 'JÜRGEN KLAUKE »PROSECURITAS«' in small spaced sans-serif type upper centre. Square format, cloth-bound hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket.
  • Interior spread from Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas catalogue, 1994. Upper half: four-panel black-and-white photographic sequence captioned 'Abb. 9 »SCHUSSFOLGE/SCHLUSSFOLGE«, 1976, vierteilige Fotosequenz, je 80×120 cm', showing a shirtless man holding a revolver to his head in four sequential poses. Lower half: full-width black-and-white photograph captioned 'Abb. 10 aus dem Werkkomplex: »SCHATTENBILDER«, 1984, Fotoarbeit, 110×200 cm', showing two seated silhouettes facing each other across a table with a tel
  • Interior page from Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas catalogue, 1994. Full-page black-and-white photograph captioned 'Abb. 18 aus: »KULTURTISCHE«, 1990/1992, aus dem Werkkomplex: »SONNTAGSNEUROSEN«, fünfteilige Fotoarbeit, je 180×126 cm'. A two-storey vitrine-like wooden structure filled with figurines, tribal objects, a classical nude sculpture, Mickey Mouse toys, and chess pieces arranged across its shelves and floor.
  • Interior page from Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas catalogue, 1994. Full-page cyanotype or X-ray image on deep blue ground showing a ghostly still life: a trumpet or horn form at centre, a spherical object with radiating wires upper right, and mechanical or electronic components upper left, all rendered as luminous white forms against the dark blue field.
  • Interior page from Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas catalogue, 1994. Two stacked black-and-white scanned or photocopied images of a human body: upper image shows a figure from above, head down, wearing a gas mask or respirator, body curled; lower image shows the same or similar figure from a different angle, legs bent, wearing heeled shoes, the scan lines visible across both images.
  • Interior page from Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas catalogue, 1994. Black-and-white photograph of Jürgen Klauke from the shoulders up, wearing dark sunglasses and a small earring, with a bright light source flaring above his head against a plain grey ground. Below the image, biographical text in German: '1943 in Kliding/Cochem an der Mosel geboren, lebt und arbeitet seit 1968 in Köln, seit 1993 Professur für künstlerische Fotografie an der Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln.
  • Reverse of 1994 Jürgen Klauke Prosecuritas exhibition catalogue. Back cover showing a black-and-white scanned image: a large dark vertical form occupies the left half, while the right half shows a blurred interior scene with a child's tricycle, a small seated figure, and a curved hook or handle upper right. No text. Square format, cloth-bound hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket.
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Jürgen Klauke — Prosecuritas, Cantz / Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1994

Jürgen Klauke — Prosecuritas, Cantz / Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1994

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Hardcover. 120 pages, 28 × 25 cm. German text. Published by Cantz, Ostfildern / Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1994. ISBN: 3893226338.

Condition: Good. Light shelf wear and handling visible to cover edges and corners.

Published in 1994, Prosecuritas sits within Jürgen Klauke's long investigation of the body, identity, staged photography, performance, and psychological apparatus. Since the 1970s, Klauke has used the camera not simply to document action, but to construct unstable images of the self: theatrical, ritualized, technological, and often darkly comic.

This volume gathers works from a period in which his practice moved between photographic sequence, object staging, X-ray imagery, and the body as an administered or monitored subject. The book includes the four-panel sequence Schussfolge/Schlussfolge (1976), the silhouette diptych Schattenbilder (1984), the vitrine-like object staging Kulturtische from the Sonntagsneurosen cycle (1990/1992), and cyanotype-like X-ray images of surveillance and medical apparatus.

A substantial 1990s Cantz monograph and exhibition catalogue. Large-format hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket, monochrome-heavy design, image sequences, installation-like photographic reproductions, and German critical texts.

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