INTRODUCING HARVEY…

May I introduce you to my friend Harvey? No, he is not a pooka, but he will accompany me on my traveling through the photographic world sometimes….;-)

Awakening

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“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to ‘hear through the eyes’.” [Paul Caponigro]

February 9, 2014

February 8, 2014

February 7, 2014 _ Turning the world upside down...

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"Where light and shadow fall on your subject - that is the essence of expression and art through photography." [Scott Bourne]

February 6, 2014 

February 5, 2014 

February 4, 2014

WINTER IMPRESSIONS

Not much snow here around Vienna but a lot of ice…

Strictly not recommended...

Gone with the wind...

Winter on a solitary beach...

Some haiku, anybody?

Waitung for the next season...

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“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”  [Arnold Newman]

February 3, 2014 _ Amber Light

February 2, 2014 _ The Gallery

February 1, 2014 _ The Future is Digital

"ÜBER-ICH: THE "SUPER-EGO" AND THE "COLLECTIVE MEMORY"…

I am currently working on a project i occupied myself already for a long time, not only within my photographic work. Its about nations and societies, how they are seeing themselves and how they are seen from the outside…

According to Sigmund Freud there exists something he called Über-Ich, the superego, that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly taught by parents applying their guidance and influence. If you implement this concept into sociology you get something which is called collective memory. Collective memory is about how a nation, a society, is handling its past, its history, what is passed an to the next generation by parents, teachers, media and politics. All this passed-on memories can differ very much form what one can call the "official" (self-)picture of a country, a nation, a society.

The "collective memory" that formed Austrian society.

To state this more precisely I have done a picture about how I see my native country, Austria. It is about how I see, what has formed the current austrian society, about things, people, which had (and still have) quite a lot of influence on the Austrian subconscious mind: Sigmund Freud (where else then in Vienna could he have formed his thesis?) and Adolf Hitler (who most likely has learned his anti-Semitism here), all this Jewish artists and scientist, which where driven out of Austria (if they where lucky) and the way how this history was handled after WW2. Until now Austria was not liberated from the Nazis but occupied by the Allies…

I am planing to similar pictures for other countries too. There could be two versions: Mine, the way I see what is forming the collective memory of a country (the view from outside in so do say). And yours. If you give me your ideas, you view. I would appreciate this very much...

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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”  [Diane Arbus]

The Crystal Ball goes colour…

I started a few 365-projects over the years. But somehow all of them run dry after some times. So I am quite happy (and a little bit proud ;-)) that my Crystal Ball-Project survived already a whole month. And it even serves me as a "testing ground" for my next project...

January 31, 2014 _ Out of Power (but as long as there are still butterflies…)

January 30, 2014 _ C.B. meets his brothers...

January 29, 2014 _ Hommage to Malevich

January 28, 2014 - Iluminated