Ways of Knowing

First edition of Ways of Knowing by Daniel Stier (2015)

First impression 

Medium format paperback in near fine condition 

Two volumes swiss-bound into a single cover

168 pages with 71 colour plates

Screen-printed PVC dust jacket

Some slight wear to dust jacket

Some minor toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

About

In his project “Ways of Knowing”  Daniel Stier takes us inside the world of scientific research to meet the real people whose work, represented in these images by an intriguing array of self-built technologies, holds the promise - and perhaps the threat - of transforming our lives.

Together with photos taken in various research institutions across Europe and North America, the book includes a series of homemade experiments, shot in Stier’s own studio, that seem to ask us to consider the similarities between the scientist’s domain and the artist’s.

Both domains, lab and studio, are characterized by big questions, obsessive convictions and a high degree of specialization. Now Stier has invited us, the outsiders, to look in. We do so with wonder, dismay and, depending on our disposition, even a certain faith.