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Roots & Waltz (unique collector's editon)

by Regina Anzenberger

Photographs: Regina Anzenberger

Text: Regina Anzenberger

Publisher: AnzenbergerEdition

120 pages

Pictures: 50 photographs and 30 mixed media works

Year: 2026

ISBN: 978-3-9503876-3-6

Price: 3500 €

Comments: unique collector's edition. linen box in the size of 34 x 26 cm, includes the book 'Roots & Waltz' no. 100, an original painted print in the size 32 x 25 cm and found objects (feathers, wood, a vespiary and a bird's nest with an egg). book: size: 24 x 18,5 cm, edition of 350 signed and numbered copies. Hard cover with American dust jacket, thread binding. Inside Paper: Pergraphica Natural Rough 150 gr Cover: Garda Premium Natural 130 gr., 2 mm cupboard with 330 gr. Pergraphica Colours sensual brown. Endpaper: SH Recycling grey/grey. Book cloth: Toile du Marais 035088. Handwritten title on the cover. Print: pigment print on Hahnemuehle PhotoRag Ultra Smooth painted with gouache.

Unique collector's edition of the book 'Roots & Waltz'. The embossed linen box in the size of 34 x 26 cm includes the book no. 100, an original painted print in the size 32 x 25 cm and found objects (feathers, wood, a vespiary and a bird's nest with an egg). The work in the book Roots & Waltz was inspired by a walk through the Vienna Danube riverlands. Regina Anzenberger went there with a friend during pandemic times, when everyone in Vienna was stuck indoors and going for walks outside. Having grown up in the countryside and having lived in Vienna for over 30 years, the artist noticed that her Viennese friends didn't actually leave the city when they longed for nature. Instead, they would go to the Prater-Auen, which is Vienna’s ‘Central Park’ and had served as the Emperor's hunting grounds over 100 years ago. The landscape, with its fascinating, wild natural forms, shares even more, leaving plenty of room for imagination. The artist conveys moods with her painted-over, drawn-on photographs, augmented with found objects. After the pandemic, the war in Ukraine began, and the whole world changed again. More questions arose regarding the essence of life, roots, and the future of the planet. The forest, as a source of creative inspiration and energy, became a refuge for many. Nature makes the soul dance, wandering through the floodplain forest, one could almost say, "dancing to the Danube Waltz."

book awards:

> German Photobook Prize 24/25 - bronze medal category self-published
> Photometria Festival Greece winner 2025

reviews:

The PhotoBook Journal

PhotoNews

Der Standard Album

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