– Gertrude and Ursula Falke (1906), daughters of writer Gustav Falke
Daido Moriyama, Bye Bye Photography (1), 1972, ( Farewell Photography ), gelatin silver print
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“The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of “how to do.” The salvation of photography comes from the experiments.” ~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The Function of Monochrome
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen simply, as through the eyes of the man in the street. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough—there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. It is difficult to describe this thin line where matter ends and mind begins.”
“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies’ playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.”
“The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it’s color—to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It’s difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merely decorative. Some photographers use [it] brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.”
- Robert Frank, Walker Evans, and Mary Ellen Mark [respectively] on the choice to shoot in black & white
Jan 13 — April 15, 2018 // Opening Reception: Friday, Jan 12, 7 – 9 pm // + Framework program
Heinrich Kühn
Violets, 1908 and Woman at Mirror, 1906
Carl Christian Heinrich Kühn (February 25, 1866 in Dresden - September 14, 1944 in Birgitz) was an Austrian–German photographer and pioneer. He is regarded one of the forefathers of fine art photography, the movement that helped photography to establish itself as an art on its own. His photographs closely resemble impressionist paintings, with their frequent use of soft lighting and focus. Kühn was part of the pictorialist photographic movement.
Photography is in a way a mental process. We have to know what to, be clear, on what we want to say. Our conceptions, our, what we think of a certain situation, a certain problem. Photography is a way of writing it, of drawing, making sketches of it.