Published to honor Dieter Appelt as the recipient of the prestigious Gerhard Altenbourg Prize 2025, this monograph explores the legendary artist’s obsession with time, memory, and the physical limits of the body. Since the 1960s, Appelt has used his camera to trace the “losses” of modern society, often incorporating his own body into poetic and harrowing performances. The book features high-definition reproductions of his complex, multi-layered photographic sequences and sculptural installations. It provides a definitive retrospective of an artist who bridges the gap between photography, sculpture, and performance art, revealing the profound fragility of human existence within the natural world.