Dresden reliquary: past into present.This work deals primarily with what my photographer friend Christine Starke called "the forgotten ones," buildings and factories left in ruins and abandoned--the darker side of Dresden, not the glorious Semper Opera House, for example. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My photographic projects unfold unfold - inline over time, requiring periods of months to create what I consider a completed series. Much of this work has been done with late 19th and early 20th century extreme large format view cameras using 14" x 17" and 12" x 20" films and making contact prints of the same size. For the connoisseur, a contact print, the result of printing the negative directly onto photographic paper, achieves what many consider the ultimate in a photographic print. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The finished work is in the form of large scale ink jet See inkjet printer. prints, currently photographed with a true panoramic camera 1. In aerial photography, a camera which, through a system of moving optics or mirrors, scans a wide area of the terrain, usually from horizon to horizon. The camera may be mounted vertically or obliquely within the aircraft, to scan across or along the line of flight. 2. , producing a view of 146 degrees onto a single negative. Ironically, the Noblex Panoramic was invented and manufactured in Dresden. Thanks to the generous support provided by a Greater Columbus Arts Council An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad. International Artist Residency An artist residency is a program where artists are given space to live or work for some time at reduced or no cost. Residency programs often give access to tools, and offer the chance to meet and work with notable artists, curators, writers, and theorists. awarded in 2000, I was able to photograph this past summer for a period of eleven uninterrupted weeks in Dresden, Germany. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With its unique mixture of post-reunification construction, architecture remaining from more than forty years of Communist control, and the rebuilding of the destruction from the infamous firebombing Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire from a incendiary device, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs. of World War II now in full force, Dresden remains an amalgam of the past and the present, the baroque and the postmodern--the past in the present. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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