Asger Carlsen
The Wunderkabinet of Asger Carlsen
Wrong, a series of photographs by the Danish photographer Aster Carlsen combines the relatively “innocent” form of the family photograph with manipulative interventions. In terms of both form and content, the photographs bear all of the characteristic traits of the snapshot. A wide range of offences against the canon of “good photography” is present here, without exception – central composition, at times in fact bordering on a total resignation of any pretense of composition, objects interfering with framing, the use of direct flash. Here and there the series also features a picture taken by a local photo studio – the usual portrait of a smiling family with a tasteless blurred backdrop of clouds. The thematic thrust similarly follows the rigid dictates of the family album – all living room scenes, kitchen scenes, sofa portraits, party pictures. At first glance everything seems perfectly normal.
#24 seeing is believing
Content
- ––– Project
- Dominik Gajarský
- ––– Profiles
- František Vobecký
- Emir Šehanović
- Paul Bogaers
- Jiří Černický
- Junsheng Zhou
- Mário Bihári & Björn Steinz
- František Drtikol
- Taiyo Onorato a Nico Krebs
- Július Koller
- Michal Heiman
- Gerard Byrne
- Christoph Keller
- Asger Carlsen
- Ryan Thompson
- Raplh Eugene Meatyard
- Tomokichi Fukurai
- ––– Discoveries
- Michael Borek
- Bastienne Schmidt
- Katarína Hrušková
- ––– Theory
- Materialization and Photographic Evidence
- ––– Events
- Les Rencontres d'Arles 2014
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Dušan Skala's and Jan Freiberg's Slow Photography
- Pavel Hečko
- Kateřina Zochová
- Václav Magid
- ––– Reviews
- Preserving the Legacy
- Jaroslav Rössler Avant-Garde Photographer
- Vladimír Birgus Photographs 1972-2014
- Present Day Critical Documentary Strategies
- Photography and Non-Photography
- Tales of Ancient Photographers
- How to Think About the Theory of Photography in the Czech Context?
- The Lives of Images
Archive
- #45 hypertension
- #44 empathy
- #43 collecting
- #42 food
- #41 postdigital photography
- #40 earthlings
- #39 delight, pain
- #38 death, when you think about it
- #37 uneven ground
- #36 new utopias
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face