Bernd Arnold (photographer)

Bernd Arnold (* 1961 in Cologne ) is a German photographer and photo artist.

life and work

Arnold grew up in Cologne. From 1983 to 1990 he studied photography with Hans Meyer-Veden and Adolf Clemens at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences .

Since the end of the 1980s, Arnold has been working on religion, politics, demimondial, media and the business world. He arranges his work on these aspects of German society in the cycles “Power and Ritual”, “Black East Wild West” and “Insignificant Personalities”.

“Power and Ritual” shows how power is staged in different sociological systems. “Arnold's constant impulse to explore socially relevant rituals of the present can perhaps best be described as“ visual sociology ”. In particular, the images of the eight federal election campaigns that he has accompanied so far reveal a cold view of the complex fabric of sophisticated staging strategies in order to penetrate into the inner, even essence of this political phenomenon as with a dissecting knife. [...] the theatrical of politics condenses into an existential parable about mask and man. "

In addition to his documentary and artistic work, Arnold works as a freelance photographer for German and international print media.

He lives and works in Cologne.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2016 bilderstrom - The Rhine and Photography 2016–1853, LVR Landesmuseum Bonn
• 2016 Eyes Wide Open! 100 jaar Leica photography, Sint-Pietersabdij , Gent
• 2014–2016 eyes open! 100 years of Leica Photography, Insurance Chamber Art Foyer Munich,
• C / O Berlin , Photography Forum Frankfurt, House of Photography Deichtorhallen Hamburg
• 2008 24X36 - 50 Years of Leica M, Goethe Institute in Stockholm, Rotterdam and Helsinki
• 2007 Power and Ritual, State Representation Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin (solo exhibition)
• 2006 Power and Ritual, Cologne City Museum (solo exhibition)
• 2005 The art of being German, Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg
• 2004 Power And Ritual, LGP Gallery, Prague (solo exhibition)
• 2001 I think of Germany, Herten International Photo Days

literature

• bilderstrom - The Rhine and Photography 2016-1853 , 60 photographic positions between testimony and myth, Hatje Cantz Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4190-3
• Hans-Michael Koetzle (ed.), Eyes open ! 100 Years of Leica Photography , pp. 492 + 530, Verlag Kehrer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-523-9
• The effectiveness of the photographic image , about power and ritual by Dr. Stefanie Lieb in Zwischenraum, 01/14, pp. 2–3
• Bernd Arnold: "Wahl Kampf Ritual", Mannheim 2013, Edition Panorama, ISBN 978-3-89823-473-3
• Submit yourselves! (on power and ritual) by Hans-Joachim Neubauer in Christ und Welt / ZEIT, October 31, 2013, pp. 1–5
• Manfred Heiting (ed.) And Thomas Wiegand (author), Germany in a photo book , p. 171, Verlag Steidl 2011, ISBN 978-3-86930-249-2
• Werner Schäfke / Roman Heuberger (ed.), Cologne and his photo books , photography in Cologne, from Cologne, for Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010, p. 141, Emons Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-790- 6th
• Choreography of Power, in Leica World by Hans-Michael Koetzle, 1/2000, pp. 54–61
• Detlef Langer / Inka Neubert / Sk Stiftung Kultur (ed.) Print: //theaterszene-koeln.de,/ SK Stiftung Kultur, M7 Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-934511-01-9
• Redemption in the Rhineland , Die Zeit, June 20, 1997
• Christoph and Markus Schaden (eds.), Bernd Arnold, Das Kölner Heil, photographs from 1986 to 1996, designed by Winfried Heininger, Schaden Verlag, Bornheim 1997, ISBN 3-932187-01-6

Web links

• Bernd Arnold's website
• Literature by and about Bernd Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography | bernd arnold photography. In: www.berndarnold.de. Retrieved August 1, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Unsuitable for the poetry album. In: FREELENS TEST. Retrieved August 1, 2016 .