The ecstasy of things : from the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographsFotomuseum Winterthur ... Eds. Thomas Seelig; Urs Stahel.

on the occasion of the Exhibition "The Ecstasy of Things" at Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz, September 4 to November 14, 2004 and Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, and Spazio Oberdan, Milan, March 22 to May 29, 2005
Contents:
Form and material -- On the poetics of things in modernity / Michael Jakob -- Sample and sort : on the photographic idea of things in the 19th century / Timm Starl -- Patent inventions -- Craftsmanship and mass production -- Convincing rather than persuading : on the relationship between object photography and product design / Gerda Breuer -- "Good form" -- From the window display to shopping mall : the rhetoric of selling -- Objective photography in Switzerland 1930-1950 / Thilo Koenig -- Packaging : the second skin -- Perfume and prostheses : the body reified -- Found objects, staging, effects : reflections of object photography / Gisela Ecker and Susanne Scholz -- Light and speed.
The wired world : communication and entertainment -- On the fascination of things / Hubertus von Amelunxen -- Faster! better! : mobility and freedom -- Insert -- Glass camouflage : photography, objects and objectivity / David Campany -- The making of... -- Object photography : status, appraoch, presentation, image / Thomas Seelig -- Order in the office : touch-typing and stereotyping -- Home : furnishing an identity -- From things to flows / Neil Cummings -- Childhood dreams -- Sports equipment -- Culture and contingency / Norbert Bolz -- Symbol and fetish : the thing and I -- Decay and disintegration.