pictures in my head
Pictures in the head is an art project on the subject of photography .
description
In 1985, Stern magazine organized an exhibition designed to demonstrate the power of the printed image, but showed no images, just descriptions.
The so-called German advertising pope Michael Schirner, organizer of the exhibition, said:
"Here in the flickering, bustling and bustling of the so-called new media, the star wanted to set an example and demonstrate the power, the magic and the superiority of the printed medium in an exemplary way that everyone could not overlook."
This project cites some of the most influential images in photography history without actually showing them. These so-called “images of the century” are so powerful that it is sufficient to briefly describe them so that they appear clearly in the memory, since they are omnipresent in the collective memory.
In 2005 the German Press Museum in Hamburg showed a photo exhibition without pictures for this purpose. The exhibition “Pictures in the Mind” was supposed to show how photos pass into the collective memory. That is why the exhibition is limited to image descriptions such as "Michael Jackson holds his baby out of the window of the Hotel Adlon ". It is then left to the viewer to imagine the picture.
The radio station WDR5 went a different way by having ten of these pictures described by celebrities. The associated exhibition catalog therefore does not contain a single picture, but is supplemented by a CD from a radio broadcast with 10 text contributions by celebrities over 10 iconic pictures, which are referenced here with their official title in order to understand the principle (the majority is shown in the table below same number described in terms of content):
| No. | Title, date | photographer | discussed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death of a Loyalist Soldier, September 5, 1936 | Robert Capa | Peer Steinbruck |
| 2 | Migrant Mother , 9 March 1936 | Dorothea Lange | Klaus Honnef |
| 3 | VJ-Day (Victory over Japan) , August 14, 1945 | Alfred Eisenstaedt | Roger Willemsen |
| 4th | Marilyn Monroe on a ventilation shaft, 1954 | Sam Shaw | Herlinde Koelbl |
| 5 | James Dean in Times Square | Dennis Stock | Nina Hoger |
| 6th | Escape from East Berlin , August 15, 1961 | Peter Leibing | Fritz Pleitgen |
| 7th | Kneeling in Warsaw, December 12th, 1970 | Engelbert Reineke | Renate Künast |
| 8th | The girl from Vietnam , 1972 | Nick Út | Wolfgang Niedecken |
| 9 | Prisoner Hanns-Martin Schleyer , September 1977 | RAF | Tom Jacobi |
| 10 | September 11, 2001 | unknown | Tom Buhrow |
The Jena history professor Lutz Niethammer explains the effect of the images in the head as follows:
"In the long-term memory of humans, especially those things are preserved in pictorial or scenic form that were not conceptually prepared in the experience and triggered a strong emotional response, that is, either very pleasant or extremely shocking, in any case completely unexpected."
Many of these icons can no longer be seen today because the rights holders refuse to reproduce them, because large picture agencies claim copyright protection for millions of pictures or seal them off from the public. Bill Gates has forbidden the scanning of his agency's pictures, one of which is the most famous picture of Albert Einstein .
More sample images
| ref. no. | motive | information |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soldier falls with rifle in hand in the Spanish Civil War | Photographer: Robert Capa Image |
| 4th | Marilyn Monroe with her skirt blown up on a ventilation shaft | Photographer: Sam Shaw Picture |
| 6th | GDR soldier escapes jumping over barbed wire during the construction of the Berlin Wall | Photographer: Peter Leibing Bild |
| 7th | Willy Brandt kneels in the Warsaw Ghetto | Photographer: Engelbert Reineke Image |
| 8th | The naked Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc flees from a napalm attack | Photographer: Nick Út Image |
| 9 | Hanns-Martin Schleyer as a prisoner of the Red Army faction | Photographer: RAF Image |
| 10 | The second passenger aircraft hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 . | image |
| John F. Kennedy was hit by bullets in an open car in Dallas in 1963 | image | |
| Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon in 1969 | Photographer: Edwin Aldrin Image |
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| Hostage-taking in Munich : Masked terrorist on a balcony of the Olympic village in 1972 | image | |
| Boris Becker wins the tennis tournament in Wimbledon on July 7, 1985 . | image |
See also
literature
Especially for the exhibition
- NRW-Form (Hrsg.): Pictures in the head: an exhibition by the NRW-Forum and WDR 5 . Düsseldorf 2007, with audio CD.
Generally to world-famous pictures
- Guido Knopp: Pictures that made history . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-00257-8 .
- Guido Knopp: The great photos of the century . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-570-12062-7 .
- Marie-Monique Robin: The Photos of the Century. The book for the arte series . Taschen, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8228-6951-1 .
- Peter Stepan: Photos that moved the world . Prestel Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7913-2424-1 .
Web links
- Concept of the exhibition Pictures in the head
- Pictures in your head: photo exhibition without photos
- Images in your head - The 55th exhibition in the North Rhine-Westphalia Forum
Individual evidence
- ↑ ds80-237-208-49.dedicated.hosteurope.de ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Jackson holds his baby out of the window of the Hotel Adlon . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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