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Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
Gregor Schlatte - This is the Night…
Mar 19, 2014
The project "this is the night..." is a photographic interpretation of the term "imagination" and how the long-dead german philosopher Hegel defines it. As he puts it, imagination works in two ways: First it tears apart the data from perception, so that only partial objects are left. Secondly, out of this mess imagination creates reality. Perception wouldn't be enough for reality, which makes sense. In the end we are confronted with a reality which still shows signs from this process (cracks and glitches), reality is never complete. The project is still ongoing and will be hopefully published in the near future. What will be shown here are sketches, experiments and some raw material.
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Bart Dorsa: the body and space
Mar 24, 2014 - Gregor Schlatte
I have to admit, I’m really excited about today's post and before we begin I want to thank Bart Dorsa for providing me with the images and making this post possible!
It was one of these coincidences, which have a huge impact. An encounter I didn’t expect and which overwhelmed me. The photos I want to show you today are from Bart Dorsa's series “Katya”. You see photographs (exposed on glass plates) from Katya, and how “the Moscow underground [got] chronicled on her skin, face and body.” (opening words in the catalogue by Bart Dorsa). There’s more. Bart Dorsa included sculptures of Katyas body imprinted in wax.
The dying Swan
Mar 23, 2014 - Gregor Schlatte
Today we take a break from photography. We will be back to contemporary photography by tomorrow, with a work, I can’t wait to share with you! But for now, we will go back 90 years. The video I will show today was recorded in 1924 and shows Anna Pavlova performing “The dying swan”. This short solo is often associated with melancholy, the beauty of suffering or even death. Quite the contrary is true for me. I see a body which is relating to something bigger than itself, to an idea of beauty. I see a body which accepts to suffer in the pursuit of becoming the representation of an idea.
To enjoy the true beauty I highly recommend to turn off the sound of the video. It can not keep up with quality of the visual experience!
Bruce Conner: disturbing the narrative
Mar 21, 2014 - Gregor Schlatte
We travel now back in time, but not too far, to an artist who sadly died a few years ago: Bruce Conner. He was one of the most influential photographer/video artists for the 20th century. He became widely known for his short movie “A MOVIE”, a fast forward journey through reality. Bruce Conner once said in an interview: “if you want to know what’s going on in a culture, look at what everybody takes for granted”. He took all those partial-news, those partial-realities and combined them in a movie.
Olivier Pin-Fat: the reality of photography
Mar 20, 2014 - Gregor Schlatte
During the next week I will post about my influences and artists whose work I admire. This will take us on a time journey stretching over 100 years. Works of photographers will be included of course, but not solely. A few posts will not even deal with visual arts. We start in the present, with a work from Olivier Pin-Fat, a work which is breathtaking. His works embodies a very crucial approach in contemporary photography. Photography got freed in the last years. The paradigm change happend with cell-phone photography, suddenly the camera was every where. Photography was freed, freed from the need to capture reality and now open to create its own. (more…)