Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008. First edition. 385pp; color plates. Gray cloth titled in white to boards and spine. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in like jacket.
285 color photographs taken by German artist Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in a forest near Cologne, Germany, here grouped based on formal typology. According to Richter's website, the running text derives from German forestry magazine Waldung - Magazin für Wald, Wandern, Wissen, No. 1/2006, and has been processed with a random generator resulting in a "senseless collage of words, which originally were connected to the topic forest within the magazine." All text in German.
