Photo stitching

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Photo stitching is an artistic technique for joining photographs.

history

In the mid-1970s, the German artist Annegret Soltau developed what she herself called photo stitching, in which she combined the real thread with photographic material. The photo stitching follows the tradition of the collage , in which different realities are connected with one another. While the connections in the photo collage are made by gluing, in the photo stitching the parts are sewn together with a black thread, which also gives them a textile element.

“In these works, Soltau tears out the inside of the subject, be it the face or the body, in pieces, so that the outline of the person remains, as it were, gutted as a silhouette. She then reassembles the parts of the body obtained in this way and sews them together. The inside of the body is rebuilt in the old shell. The dismemberment of the people creates a confusion in their perception for the viewer, which can cause reactions from reluctance, rejection, repression to shock. (...) The consciously placed threads on the front of the picture result unconsciously on the back of the work a detached, but haptic thread drawing "

Since the 1990s, the technique of photo stitching has also been dealt with in school art lessons.

Andy Warhol created mixed photographic forms in the mid-eighties . His works were characterized by the fact that they were sewn together. Warhol and his studio worked intermittently from 1982 to 1987 on his series of Stitched Photographs , which were shown for the first time a few weeks before Warhol's death. From the thousands of photographs that Warhol had taken, he and his studio created an estimated 500 stitched photographs, works that were put together from several identical black-and-white prints and sewn together.

Since Warhol's death, his former photo assistant Christopher Makos has brought out his own series of sewn works.

Works

Annegret Soltau: (from 1975) herself, pregnant, happy mother, grima, generative, puberty, KALI daughter, transgenerative, NY FACES - surgical operations, personal identity, verified self

Andy Warhol: Stitched Photographs (created from 1982 to 1987)

literature

  • Modern Art Practices. Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, p. 51, 2 illustrations, ISBN 3-12-205410-8
  • Practice art. Photography. Schroedel Verlag, Hanover, 1998, pp. 118-120, 2 illustrations, ISBN 3-507-10237-4
  • Man, art! Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Leipzig 1999, p. 151, 2 illustrations, ISBN 3-12-205600-3
  • Basic art course. Schroedel Verlag, Hannover 2002, pp. 201-02, 1 ill., ISBN 3-507-10010-X
  • William Ganis. Andy Warhol`s Serial Photography. Cambridge (UK) 2004
  • Art. The body. The textile. Salon-Verlag, Cologne 2005, 8 figs. Pp. 152–167, ISBN 3-89770-235-5
  • Annegret Soltau. myself. Mathildenhöhe, 2006, ISBN 3-935062-06-0
  • Discover art. Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 57, 1 illustration ISBN 978-3-06-120106-7
  • Image and education. kopaed, Munich 2014, pp. 700–716, 857, 2 figs. ISBN 978-3-86736-140-8
  • Basic course ART. Schroedel Verlag, Hannover 2016, p. 144, 1 ill., ISBN 978-3-507-10965-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathrin Schmidt: From the drawing to photo stitching. In: Annegret Soltau: I myself. Mathildenhöhe 2006, pages 24–35. Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mathildenhoehe.info

Web links

credentials

  • William Ganis. Andy Warhol`s Serial Photography. Cambridge (UK) 2004
  • William Ganis. Photo fetish. In Annegret Soltau: myself. Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt 2006