PHILIPP KEEL
Philipp Keel, artist and author, is also the publisher of Diogenes.
He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and at Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Munich, before moving to California and working in various artistic disciplines. Keel’s photographs, paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited worldwide.
He became internationally known for the bestseller series All About Me (Broadway Books, 1998), for Color (Steidl, 2003) and the book series Simple Diary (TASCHEN). In 2014 Keel published the catalogue State of Mind (Nieves) to accompany his exhibition at Villa Flor in S-chanf, featuring drawings, watercolors, and Silkscreen Editions. In 2017 Steidl published the monography Splash (Steidl, 2017), which presents a rigorous selection of Keel’s photographic work from the past years.
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