Josef Dreisoerner
Fist (Single)
DESCRIPTION
Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Jacob Blake...: Time and again, black people in the U.S. are killed or seriously injured by police violence. Since 2015, about 1000 people have been killed by security forces every year, that's what the Washington Post counted. Most of them were shot. Blacks are affected proportionally more often.
Direct exposure on black and white positive photo paper.
Camera type: Klimsch Praktika, Process / Reproduction Camera (Year of construction: 1957).
Lense: Rodenstock Klimsch Apo-Ronar 1:9 f=600mm
Camera Format: 24×24 Inch (60×60 cm)
Film Format: 20×24 Inch (50×60 cm)
AUTHOR
Josef Dreisörner (born 1967)
Living in Munich, Germany
Mediadesigner, Photo Artist
Digital post-editing today allows repairing virtually every mistake and achieving any desired aesthetic result, but at a great cost. Where any result can be produced from any original image, seeing and sensual perception lose their value and significance, as does the technical and manual process of capturing an image. Josef Dreisörner rejects this current approach to the photographic workflow radically.
His KLIMSCH UNIKAT portrait shots yield perspectives of the human visage with downright surgical precision. In most of his still lifes, his concern as an artist is to draw the viewer's attention to socially relevant issues. Such pictorial statements are mainly realized by so-called large format cameras. Of particular note is the Klimsch Praktika reproduction / process camera built in 1957 with a film format of up to 50×60 cm (20×24 Inch). Photographs are taken analogue on black-and-white film or with direct exposure on black-and-white positive photo paper. The captures on film are realized by means of the Palladium /Platinum Print process.
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