#8 Landscape
Landscape can be conceived as the scenery of an escape from the city, as the post-industrial arena of contemporary quests for connections between modern-day layers of civilization and the underlying notions of romanticism, or as a natural backdrop for the projections of the self. In recent decades, landscape photography has seen the return of new conceptual approaches. These post-conceptualist efforts now regard photography as the final product. Their interventions into landscape are not huge or dramatic, yet they are intended to convey more than a mere aesthetic experience. Often they play a game with the viewer, yet this is a game the meaning of which the viewer must put into question, in order to get through to the next level of the artist’s strategies.
#8 Landscape — Portfolios
Elina Brotherus
The photographic work of Finnish artist Elina Brotherus is founded on the intertwining of reflection and construction. Her trademark approach is the introduction of personal mythologies and feminine topics into landscape photography…
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Magdalena Jetelová
For the first time, Magdalena Jetelová has taken her measures on nothing less than the earth and the development of earth history in her Iceland Project (1992). Iceland is situated on the Central Atlantic Shelf which runs on the bottom of the ocean on a length of approximately 15,000 kilometers and forms the separating line between the continents of America on one side and Europe and Africa on the other side…
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Sarah Pickering
Over the past few years, London-based visual artist Sarah Pickering has caused quite a stir on the contemporary British photography scene. Pickering – a graduate of the Royal College of Art (2005) and recipient of numerous prestigious arts awards – frequently approaches the creation of her large-format photographs like a shaman or chemist and a little like a bartender…
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Steffi Klenz
These are the words with which Buzz Aldine, pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar module, described the lunar !andscape – words that could come to mind when viewing the landscape photographs of Steffi Klenz…
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Jiří Šigut
The name of Jiří Šigut (1960) first appeared in Fotograf magazine two years ago. The following interview therefore retroactively turns the review of his exhibition at the Moravian Gallery in Brno and its sixty-page catalogue Záznamy (Records) published in issue 4/2004 into a sort of preface…
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Pavel Baňka
Content
- ––– Profiles
- Nicolai Howalt & Trine Sondergaard
- Sarah Pickering
- Steffi Klenz
- Bill Finger
- Juliane Eirich
- ––– Events
- Month of photography in Paris and Paris photo 2006
- Month of photography in Bratislava 2006
- Photokina and the international photo scene in Cologne
- ––– History
- On the waves of photogeny
- Josef Pirka - A Forgotten Czech Photographer
- ––– Portfolios
- Pavel Baňka
- Elina Brotherus
- Jan Ságl
- Jiří Šigut
- Magdalena Jetelová
Archive
- #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
