Photography is Light

09/09/2024

Resonanz – Projektkurs Fotografie

Es gibt noch freie Plätze im Projektkurs Resonanz.
Was bedeutet Resonanz? Es ist ein Begriff aus der Akustik, wir aber auch in der Physik und in der Soziologie verwendet. Zunächst meint Resonanz, dass sich Schwingungen gegenseitig verstärken oder synchronisieren können. In der Physik gibt es erstaunliche Resonanzeffekte, zum Beispiel können die Umlaufzeiten der Planeten in einfache ganzzahlige Verhältnissen beschrieben werden (2:1 oder 2:3), weshalb im Mittelalter auch von Sphärenharmonie gesprochen wurde. In der Soziologie sprechen manche Wissenschaftler von Resonanzbeziehungen, wenn sich Menschen emotional im „Einklang“ mit ihrer Umgebung empfinden, wie zum Beispiel beim Anschauen eines Theaterstückes.
Was bedeutet das nun für die Fotografie? Kann man Resonanz abbilden? Oder kann man selbst Resonanz erfahren, beim Erstellen von Fotografie? Wie kann man künstlerische Fotografie präsentieren, so dass sie Resonanzerfahrungen ermöglicht?
In dem Projektkurs wollen wir uns diese Fragen stellen. Dazu werden wir uns zunächst etwas mit der Verbindung von Sound und Bild, und mit der Idee von Synästhesie (das parallele Empfinden von Form, Sound und Farbe) wie bei der Farbenlehre von Wassili Kandinsky. „Das Foto schaut mich an“ ist vielleicht der stärkste Ausdruck für eine Resonanz, die das Foto auslösen konnte. Mit praktischen Übungen und Texten werden wir uns im ersten Projekt-Semester dem Thema annähern.

Dozent Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Kurs Nummer FK2.265
https://photocentrum.de/2024/05/13/resonanz-projektklasse-klaus-w-eisenlohr-teil-1/
Kursstart: Mo, 16.09.2024, 18:00 - 21:00

26/06/2024

The preview of our exhibition is online. Opening on Friday, at Kunstquartier Bethanien:

Projektklasse mit Klaus W. Eisenlohr Die Dinge umgeben uns, sie machen uns Freude, oder belasten uns. Wenn wir uns mit Dingen umgeben, richten wir uns ein, versuchen wir unserem Leben Stabilität zu geben. Wenn wir jedoch weiter über sie nachdenken, ist der Umgang mit den Dingen alles andere als tr...

15/12/2023

Lutz Schramm published his final result of my class "Tonbild" (sound-image) on youtube. Enjoy!
Field recording and photos at Warschauer Strasse, Berlin. I really enjoyed giving this class.

Bild-Ton-Collage von Lutz SchrammEntstanden im Rahmen des Kurses "Ton-Bild" am Photocentrum der VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Dozent: Klaus W. Eisenlohr.Aufn...

07/09/2020

Jessica Hines: "My Brother’s War"
As I posted so many works that create combined photographs either in front of the camera or in post production, this work was catching my eyes as an example of a very personal and political statement. In the images the artist tries to deal with the loss of her brother, who came back from Vietnam with a post traumatic disorder, and died soon after. She started this work years later, when she was asked to give his letters to a group of students as a testimony. On the course of working about her brother's letters and the photographs he sent home, Hines also visited Vietnam, which immensly changed her project. The interview is very worth reading, and she now published her work as a book. Check out the links:
Interview with Jessica Hines
https://www.catalystinterviews.com/interviews/2020/8/12/jessica-hines
Lensculture:
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jessica-hines-my-brother-s-war

Exploring images inspired by personal memory, experience and the unconscious mind - highlighted by Hines’ work, My Brothers War .

04/07/2020

spaces #3
The work "Arquitectura de Autor" of Brazilian artist Lucia Koch seems not to fit into the question of experiments with light. However, the work with cardbord boxes, the packings of consumer products, uses the light in order to illuminate the boxes on the inside. It usually is the sun, and sometimes, we see a glimpse of the landscape, some green, coming in through the plastic "window" of the box.
https://www.pipaprize.com/pag/artists/lucia-koch/sp=1593863207Tb8df992d661178c32ec60540e911d7da9c289e8dc07355d8b78dc54e477d2356

What is fascinating, the space Lucia creates with her camera is the space drawn by the light coming from outside. They become pieces of "virtual" architecture. Koch also works with light in her work with sculpture. Colored glass changes the architectural space when it filters the incoming sun light. The relation
between light and space play a dominant role in both kinds of work.
http://www.luciakoch.com/

https://wsimag.com/architecture-and-design/29247-lucia-koch

Artist nominated to P**A Prize

04/07/2020

spaces #2
Evgen Bavčar, Slowenian photographer. There are a number of blind photographers in the art scene, Bavčar who lives and works in Paris, is one of them.

He uses a multitude of different techniques. And on one page we are being told, that he prefers to have children to help him taking his pictures. What we are possibly most interested in, is his use of the light for long-time exposure and the use of a torch to "touch" the image with the light. This already creates some kind of multi-exposure. Thus multi-exposure and montage are also playing a role in many images.
https://simplyasubplot.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/evgen-bavcar-b-1946/

On his own web page, images are very colorful, and there are less images of this techniques that "draws" the image out of the darkness using a torch. Maybe, because this is a technique that has been used by many other blind photographers.
http://www.evgenbavcar.com/

There have been a number of exhibitions from blind photographers. "Sight Unseen" was a show at California Museum of Photography, here you can find more names and works other artists: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2009/06/sight_unseen_blind_photographe.html?t=1593861371766

By the age of twelve, Evgen Bavčar had completely lost sight in both eyes.

29/06/2020

spaces #1
Lara Wilde recently won the Vonovia Award for this series of people in their appartments at night. She did not know them, but found them by advertising her project on Facebook groups. She does not tell much about her lighting technique, but that they are based on long time exposures and that it took her a while to create this kind of special lighting. I think there must be one or several flashlights involved. They could be shot separated from the camera during the extended exposure in the dark.
In a way it is also a portrait of Berlin, as people from other places have remarked.

https://www.lara-wilde.com/work/photo/

image from vice magazin, which also contains an interesting interview:
https://www.vice.com/de/article/3a899j/fotos-menschen-nachts-alleine

"Mich reizen Leute, die irgendwie strange sind" – Fotografin Lara Wilde.

29/06/2020

body #4
Bettina Rheims, well known for her erotic portraits of women, often very colorful and glossy, went onto a different, brightly illuminated track with her "gender studies". Using the strategies of contemporary fashion photography the whole series (and book) is using similar natural-white set-up of make-shift clothing, make-up and gestures. The light is a soft but modulating studio light, without going to the edge of high-key transformation.

https://www.chambre237.com/la-question-du-genre-selon-bettina-rheims/

There is an interesting interview (German) in the magazine "Zeit" about the work, which also included sound that was used in the exhibtion of the series.
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2012-10/bettina-rheims-fotografie-kunst

https://fotografr.de/11624/bettina-rheims-transgender-portraits/

La série photo de Bettina Rheims intitulée 'Gender Studies' représente des hommes ayant choisi de devenir femme et des femmes ayant choisi de devenir homme. Les portraits des sujets transgenres de Bettina sont des exemples superbes qui remettent en cause le clivage binaire du genre.La série revi...

29/06/2020

body #3
Nadine Tasseel is modulating her protagonists mostly with a very soft light, on a dark background. But then, something else happens too, some irritation, some object, or a strange gesture that turns the image into some symbolic meaning. These meanings go with or against (?) the references of Dutch paintings through the lighting and the surfaces.

https://databank.kunsten.be/audiovisuele-beeldende-kunsten/profielen/kunstenaars/ent:dkb:ppl:1898776/nadine-tasseel/
http://galeriebaudelaire.be/tasseel.html
image source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/designersagainstaids/4856777163

zonder titel www.galeriebaudelaire.be/