honorable mention
René Kanzler germany
title
From the group of works “Picture images”
the image that you are looking at?
If you are thinking of a chair, it is quite improbable that you are thinking
of it from a worm's-eye view. You have a so-called “canonical view” of it.
“Picture Images” has a look on the blank position of the canonical view
of photography, changes the focus on the raw edges of pictures.
The group of works broaches the issue of the visualized technical precision
of the picture, of which the image is detached in a sense of its reproducibility –
think of Mitchell’s dichotomy of “picture” and “image” and the resulting
aspects from it: “to picture”, “to image”, “to take a picture”, “to get a picture”,
“to get the picture” …
The photographic images of photographs from different decades bring an
imaginary archive to mind, strip layers of internalized and invisible but
activatable images: floating migration lines of icons, indexes and symbols.
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entry description
What is photography – the picture that you are holding in the hand,the image that you are looking at?
If you are thinking of a chair, it is quite improbable that you are thinking
of it from a worm's-eye view. You have a so-called “canonical view” of it.
“Picture Images” has a look on the blank position of the canonical view
of photography, changes the focus on the raw edges of pictures.
The group of works broaches the issue of the visualized technical precision
of the picture, of which the image is detached in a sense of its reproducibility –
think of Mitchell’s dichotomy of “picture” and “image” and the resulting
aspects from it: “to picture”, “to image”, “to take a picture”, “to get a picture”,
“to get the picture” …
The photographic images of photographs from different decades bring an
imaginary archive to mind, strip layers of internalized and invisible but
activatable images: floating migration lines of icons, indexes and symbols.
about the photographer
is often called a “photosopher”, started as a studio photographer, oscillated between freelance work and art world later on, studied photography among others things, holds an MAS from the Academy of Art and Design Basel (FHNW, Switzerland)back to gallery
