EAN: 9783869050195

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»I grew up in an art-conscious parental home. My grandfather was a sought-after landscape artist of the Düsseldorf School. As a result there were beautiful paintings everywhere in the house including two large portraits of my great-grandparents from the beginning of the nineteenth century which made a lasting impression on me as a boy. So it's not surprising that as a high-school graduate I photographed with my first 35 mm camera on the first film a face my own a selfportrait. That was in 1954. After that photography didn't let me go. So in the sixty-four years until this day I have recorded among my other topics over four hundred human faces above all those of family members and friends. I had studied geology and had become a geologist which meant making endless journeys all over the world and also inevitably making countless human contacts. So I could also photograph human faces over and over again in all the visited countries. As a geologist I usually only met people living in the countryside such as farmers shepherds fishermen or innkeepers but hardly a city dweller. With the help of the camera I have tried to capture the many expressive possibilities of the human face understanding that every face is unmistakable. I have experimented with various camera models and film types of analogue photography but I said goodbye to them in 2014 in order to get to know and to use the almost inexhaustible possibilities of digital photography most recently using a monochrome Leica. I have however remained as faithful as possible to one classical tool of photography: the tripod.«

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