Andreas
Magdanz, bunker photographs
Photographs
are windows to another reality. As long as there is no manipulation
or conscious arrangement, they show what the photographer saw with
own eyes. A reality others could have perceived, if they had been
in the same place at the same time. - Similarly to when one encounters
a good painting or sculpture, though, the observer will never be
able to recreate the atmosphere the photographer experienced while
absorbed in his work simply by looking at the photograph. The extent
of the photograph’s authenticity, its degree of frozen reality is
thus also a measure of the distance from the observer's imagination.
The latter, however hard he may try, can never quite put himself
in the photographer’s place.. [...]
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The
Rose Garden
[...] Apollinaire
25 000 doors represent 25 000 opportunities of stepping across a
threshold. If they remain closed, however, they have the capacity
to represent a Kafkaesque world of visual and physical denial of
access. Even one’s ability to visualise goes into denial when confronted
with 25000 doors. [...]
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the
photographs
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