Subjective photography
The Subjective Photography was by Otto Steinert , a member of the group fotoform , founded in the early 1950s. It saw itself expressly as artistic photography .
The main interest was primarily experimental photography . Subjective photography does not want to reproduce the objective reality of a situation, but only its pictorial interpretation, a subjective interpretation of the viewer is necessary and his imagination is required. Subjective photography mainly delivers black and white images and is mostly expressed through abstract forms, graphic structures, lines of light and shadow. Further characteristics are high-contrast prints, radical cut-outs, surreal-looking situations, but also negative prints or solarizations . The traditions and ideas within subjective photography go back to the Bauhaus era, and artists in this field of photography still feel connected to it today.
Subjective photography gave photography a greater artistic legitimation after World War II, which it had previously lost through purely documentary and life photography. The fotoform group organized the first exhibition of subjective photography in Saarbrücken in 1951, which received great international attention. Subjective photography managed to arouse the interest of a wider audience.
Important representatives of subjective photography are Kilian Breier , Chargesheimer , Paul Facchetti from Paris, Heinz Hajek-Halke , Peter Keetman , Siegfried Lauterwasser , Toni Schneiders , Otto Steinert , Carl Strüwe and Ludwig Windstosser .
Web links
- Subjective photography , Saar art dictionary
- Exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations ( Memento from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the ifa gallery , 2004
- Overwhelmed by the new look. Review of the exhibition “Subjective Photography” at the Museum Folkwang , 1985. The time of February 1, 1985
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for current art in Saarland, Saar art dictionary: Aspects: Subjective photography. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
- ^ Exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations , Subjective Photography . ( Memento of January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved January 15, 2016.
- ↑ Selected positions in 'subjective photography'. Photographic collection / SK Foundation for Culture . Retrieved January 15, 2016.