Going To Arles

A Young Stag

These days, holiday plans have been made and it’s become clear: my son and I will be going to the 40-èmes Rencontres d’Arles in July. We’ve been there last year and were totally stoked by the athmosphere, the city, the exhibitions and the portfolio reviews. Below is one Pt/Pd print I’ll be showing at this year’s reviews:

From Pattern Recognition

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Toepfer's Turm

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Lessons from Paris

Jeanne d'Arc, listening to her voices

Well, I’m about halfway through scanning my best negatives from a week’s visit in Paris (some pictures in the post below this) and it’s time for a reconing.

One Picture of Thousands in the Louvre

We’re in Paris this week, and my son and I are spending days in the Louvre museum. A thing to be wholeheartedly recommended to anyone visually interested! There is so much material of the highest quality worthy of your closest attention, a person could spend a whole life in the Louvre and not tire or get bored about learning about art and life in this way. Every art object or picture there seems to be a cosmos in itself. One example is (inadequately) pictured below: van Eyck’s Chancellor Rolin’s Madonna. A friend gave me Anita Albus’ book “Die Kunst der Künste” (The art of the arts) that starts with a treatise on this picture. I couldn’t improve on Mrs. Albus, so let me just say I was struck standing in the presence of this work.

Why Black & White?

Young Acorn

I got a comment on my German language photo blog on the picture above that said: “Beautiful picture, but why black and white?” Comments there are a seldom enough occurrence, so six weeks later I replied:
Well, look:
I almost exclusively work in black and white. Colour is concrete, black and white is one step further to abstraction

Flickry Adressees

For years now, I’ve been showing my photos on a German photo sharing site (don’t know how how long that link will be up, see below). They contacted me recently when the yearly fees were due and they’d lost connection to my credit card. This got me thinking, as expenses are apt to do lately.
What is the purpose of posting photos on such a site for others and me?

Diptychon Of Socialist Medicine

Stained glass windows, former hospital, Waltershausen, Thuringia

These stained glass windows in the former hospital (now a geriatric rest home) in my hometown Waltershausen have always fascinated me. What a strange contrast between the clerical style of stained glass windows and the socialist aesthetics! On the other hand, they appeal to me because in my day job I’m a doctor, and you don’t get that kind of adulation today. In both instances, it’s an attraction-aversion conflict, I guess.
What’s your take on it, dear reader? There must be someone …
Technically, this is from the first color negative film exposed with the Nikon S3 LEB. I tried the new Kodak Ektar 100, and the claims of extremely fine grain are fully justified.
The exposure was 1/60 at f/1.4. As I wasn’t standing parallel to the windows, the left one unfortunately lacks a bit of sharpness. But boy, do I like the colors of this combination of Nikkor-S f/1.4 50 mm and Kodak Ektar!