Last Saturday was Hamburg's "Lange Nacht der Museen" / long night of museums, an annual event for which most major museums open late from 1800 thru 0200 hrs, still too short in my book, and the public transport system runs special routes and schedules to match - it is a wonderful event and I was so happy to be able to attend this year. Images aren't really exciting but I spent my time looking at the work of others which is what I was there for in the first place.
Shot 1 is a self portrait inside an installation of reflecting columns. It was impossible in there to look around for even a minute without getting a splitting headache. Certainly interesting to see though as it spiraled inward and with the increasing number of layers of columns reflections went totally beyond one's grasp. There is also a version with a color fade, as far as I go with such effects, I am not a fan but in this case it seemed OK to do. Shot 2 shows shadows on the floor - there were lots of light sources there from many different angles and I just found them interesting. There was also a series of images in another building that were a tremendous experience to look at - a work called Bye Bye by Michael Schirner, a German advertising bigwig. Take a quick look here: http://www.michael-schirner-bye-bye.de/site/page/byebye Schirner has taken well known images related to deaths, suicides, war, terrorism and natural desasters and edited out the principal subject - if you look at the link, you'll know what I mean. Title of each image is Bye Bye, XXXNN where XXX stands for the three first letters of the place (in some cases it looks like an airport code) and NN are the last two digits of the year. Looking at those empty places (actually much of it looks like "more content aware fill awesomeness") gives you a really eerie feeling - items like the wall of the 1972 Munich Olympics dorm building without the terrorists looking out, the courtroom photo of Saddam Hussein without him in it, Uwe Barschel drowned in his bathtub but no Barschel - you know exactly what the images are showing but it isn't there so you have to invoke the picture from memory along with the corresponding emotional impact that goes well beyond that of looking at the complete picture. If I find the whole set of 14 online anywhere, I'lll post it. Link as always: http://tinyurl.com/yeedjp4 Comments & honest brutalities appreciated Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
