The Extended Eye - Fine-Art-Photo-Book (English/Deutsch)
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The Extended Eye - Fine-Art-Photo-Book (English/Deutsch)

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Extended Eye - Fine-Art-Photo-Book (English/Deutsch)

About this book

ENGLISH: The photographic art project documented in this photo book was shot by the artist Werner Kiera with an iPhone in the space of more than two years. Working from his home town of Bonn/Germany, he photographed all over the world via webcams using Live Cam apps.The 150 photos contained in this album were all shot in black and white and mostly at night. They are not the "razor sharp" and somehow "polished" images we have become accustomed to but rather deliberately faded and slightly out-of-focus photos which almost come across as "photographic painting", the charm of which is reminiscent of old-fashioned negative photos shot with high and ultra sensitive "grainy" film, such as Tri-X or TMax, where the grain is a stylistic device.In doing so, Kiera revived in his work a process dating back to the days of analog photography known as the sandwich technique, where two different negatives are placed on top of each other and exposed.Transferred over to his project, Kiera takes a photo that he shot via a webcam in Tokyo, for instance, and uses the sandwich technique to combine it digitally with a photo he took in Rio de Janeiro. In a way, it could be said that "universal" images are created using this technique. All of the further processing is then done on the iPhone. This unique art project is the first of its kind anywhere in the world.---------------------------DEUTSCH: Das in diesem Fotobuch dokumentierte Fotokunstprojekt, an dem der KĂŒnstler Werner Kiera ĂŒber zwei Jahre gearbeitet hat, ist mit dem iPhone entstanden. Hierbei wurde von seiner Heimatstadt Bonn via LiveCamApps in der ganzen Welt ĂŒber WebCams fotografiert.Die in dem vorliegenden Fotobuch abgebildeten 150 Bilder sind alle Schwarzweiß-Fotos, zumeist bei Nacht fotografiert und nicht wie heutzutage ĂŒblich "knackig scharf" und "digital poliert", sondern bewusst verwaschen und eher unscharf und wirken fast schon wie "Fotografische Malerei", deren Anmutung an tradierte Negativ-Aufnahmen von hoch- und höchstempfindlichen, "körnigen" Filmen wie Tri-X oder TMax erinnert und bei denen das Filmkorn ein prĂ€gendes Stilmittel ist.Dabei hat Kiera in seiner Arbeit ein Verfahren aus analogen Zeiten wiederbelebt, welches unter dem Begriff Sandwichtechnik bekannt ist. Hierbei wurden zwei unterschiedliche Negative ĂŒbereinander gelegt und belichtet.Auf sein Projekt ĂŒbertragen nimmt Kiera beispielsweise ein Foto, welches er in Tokyo ĂŒber eine dortige WebCam fotografiert hat, und kombiniert es in besagter Sandwich-Technik digital mit einem Foto, welches er z.B. in Rio de Janeiro aufgenommen hat. So entstehen in gewisser Weise "universelle Bilder." Die weitere Nachbearbeitung erfolgt komplett im iPhone. Dieses weltweit einzigartige Kunstprojekt ist zudem das Erste seiner Art.

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Information

Publisher
Fuego
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9783862870370
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Arte general
The Extended Eye
Images of the reality in my mind
“You see my son –
here space turns into time”.
(from “Parsifal” by Richard Wagner)
“The Extended Eye,” this metaphor inherent
in the title – nomen est omen – runs like a
linking thread throughout this entire E-book,
carefully comprised of around 150 black &
white photos. The book meanders between
dream and reality, crossing the boundaries
twixt space and time, linking painting and
photography, yet only ever knowing the
touch of the paintbrush that is light.
Werner Kiera refers to himself as “Datenver-
arbeiter” (Data Processor). He has a pas-
sion for the nocturnal and Film Noir. And his
working method is as unusual as it is unique.
He views the world – be it Moscow, Tokyo
The Extended Eye
Bilder der Wirklichkeit in meinem Kopf
“Du siehst, mein Sohn,
zum Raum wird hier die Zeit”.
(aus „Parsifal“, Richard Wagner)
„The Extended Eye“ (Das verlĂ€ngerte Auge),
diese dem Titel innewohnende Metapho-
rik fĂŒhrt als roter Faden, nomen est omen,
durch das ganze sorgsam aus rund 150
Schwarzweiß-FotograïŹen zusammengestell-
te E-Book. Es bewegt sich zwischen Traum
und Wirklichkeit, ĂŒberschreitet die Grenzen
von Raum und Zeit, verbindet Malerei mit
FotograïŹe, ohne jemals einen anderen Pinsel
als das Licht zu erfahren.
Werner Kiera bezeichnet sich als Datenverar-
beiter. Seine Leidenschaft gehört der Nacht
und dem Film Noir. Und seine Arbeitsweise
ist ebenso ungewöhnlich wie einzigartig. Die
or New York, from his sofa. It serves him up
the scenarios for his picture compositions.
He has replaced camera and darkroom with
iPhone and Apps. His colourful world of pic-
tures is monochrome yet multifaceted in its
vivid contrasts, variegated greyscales, grainy
deïŹnition and his play with the unfocused.
This all means that this E-Book is a pho-
tography book in which the photographs
themselves assume the story-telling and are
able to dispense with any more text than
their own short caption.
In actual fact, the photos need no fore-
word and whoever wants to should under-
take the journey through the mysterious,
shuddering,
thought-provoking,
even
in-
triguing photo-cosmos. You can return to the
written word at any time should you wish to
learn more about this mysterious world of
pictures opening up before your eyes.
Welt, ob Moskau, Tokyo oder New York, be-
trachtet er vom Sofa aus. Sie liefert ihm die
Szenarien fĂŒr seine Bildkompositionen. Ka-
mera und Dunkelkammer hat er durch iPhone
und Apps ersetzt. Seine bunte Bilderwelt ist
schwarzweiß, dennoch facettenreich in ihren
scharfen Kontrasten, vielfÀltigen Graustufen,
grobkörnigen AuïŹ‚Ă¶sungen sowie dem Spiel
mit UnschÀrfen.
So handelt es sich bei dem vorliegenden
E-Book um ein Fotobuch, in dem die Bilder
das GeschichtenerzĂ€hlen ĂŒbernehmen und
außer ihren kurzen Untertiteln auf weiteren
Text verzichten können.
Eigentlich brauchen die FotograïŹen auch
kein Vorwort, und wer mag, der sollte sich
sofort auf die Reise durch den geheimnisvoll
schaudernd, nachdenklich oder neugierig
machenden Bilderkosmos begeben. Zum
Wort zurĂŒckkehren kann man immer noch,
wenn man mehr ĂŒber diese sich hier auftu-
ende rÀtselhafte Bilderwelt erfahren möchte.
Night-time silence hangs over the town. A
dazzling light falls upon the wide pavement.
A man in hat and coat carrying a brief-case,
the only passer-by, steps from the light into
darkness, out of the picture and into uncer-
tainty. “Stranger in the night” says the title,
evoking associations with Frank Sinatra’s
world-wide hit of 1966 – and we wonder –
“where is she?” Is he on his way to her or
does she even exist? Is he perhaps alone?
Loneliness – an even stronger feeling at night
when all the streets are empty, everyone else
at home with someone, all bar one. Loneli-
ness is a theme that runs like a melancholic
thread through a variety of pictures, “wan-
derlust”, “lonesome”, “november,” “ghost...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Start
  3. The Extended Eye
  4. This toughts 
 / Seine Gedanken 

  5. FineArt Print Order
  6. About Fuego
  7. Impressum