In On Sculpture, the sculptor Raimund Kummer (born in 1954) looks back at the last twenty years of his artistic career in which photography and his treatment of photographic images have always played a key role – as reflection, sketch, or sculpture in its own right. This volume of 130 exquisitely printed photographs shows how Raimund Kummer employs the photographic medium to appropriate spatial situations and integrate them into his artistic repertoire. New works evolve from found or staged constellations. The sculpture is compounded by its surroundings, and photography is transformed into an object. The space we actually see itself becomes sculpture.

This artist’s book shows how sculptural photography has gained sharper contours as a genre in its own right; through its focused concentration it offers the sensuous basis for Herbert Molderings’ fascinating thematic analysis. With reference to Kummer’s photographic oeuvre, Molderings’ essay discusses the innovative aesthetics of delimitation that is evident in the artist’s photo sculptures and sculptural photographs from the past couple of decades. The artist’s own glossary tells the story behind his works and opens up connections.