Photography exposes that magical moment in which one single phrase connects a scene to the entire composition, reveals the deeper meaning behind a picture, and bears man's soul. Beat Presser's art knows many moments like this. They emerge from his deep understanding of the creative power of black and white photography. More importantly, however, as a photographer and film-maker, these magical moments arise from Presser's month- and often year's-long devotion to his projects.
Beat Presser's fame is closely linked to his work with Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog. He worked as a camera assistant and still photographer on the movies "Fitzcarraldo" (1981) and "Cobra Verde" (1987). His photographs represent a breathtaking visual-chronicle of these legendary films. Quite interactions and violent clashes between director and leading actor characterize Presser's images. Klaus Kinski's enormous presence becomes almost physically palpable. Presser's portraits simultaneously capture the eccentric, demonic Kinski and his meeker, child-like nature. They reveal the fusion of the actor with those characters depicted by him.
Beat Presser's view is free of explanation and evaluation. He takes us into unknown worlds and speaks to us through faces and gestures as well as shapes, light and shadow. This preserves the great mystery of these worlds. Presser's images preserve the spirit of the Buddhist temples and cloisters, in which children are already on the search towards truth and knowledge. So can we see the simplified, allusive photographs of the Madagascar fisherman as bringing the viewer closer to the most natural archetype of culture. Ultimately, Beat Presser's work comes from life itself, a spiritually fulfilling life. His work is inspired by people who, like the photographer himself, live a life through which they are made whole. Magic is found in those moments in which they live. (Susanne Schmid)
DIEHL starts its “Flaneur” selection with 42 works of the Soviet photo journalist Dmitry Baltermants. Best known for his pictures of the Soviet battlefield during World War II.
During World War II, Baltermants covered major battles for Izvestia and for the Red Army newspaper Na Razgrom Vraga. He fought and photographe...
Le 24 mars 1976, le peuple argentin subit un coup d’état militaire. C’est le début d’une ère de répression sanglante, où quelque 30 000 personnes disparaissent et près de 500 bébés sont volés. Mais s’ouvre également une période d’ultralibéralisme d&ea...
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Coastline featuring emerging Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao’s award-winning series Coastline that focuses on the continuous 18,000 kilometres of China’s coastline. The series does not merely capture the seaside landscape of these coastal areas, but also witnesses the changes o...
Du dépouillement des clichés de Catherine Lambermont se dégage une poésie narrative. Ses images composent une suite d’instants d’observation libre. Son travail réhabilite le continuum qui caractérise chaque frontière. La frontière est le lieu du lien. Entre le corps et l’es...
Eric Rondepierre a choisi de montrer au sein d'un travail multiforme, certaines des oeuvres qui ont partie liée au cinéma, depuis ses débuts en 1992. Sur un parcours de vingt ans, 56 pièces ont été prélevées dans dix séries : Excédents, Annonces, Précis...
Simone Nieweg is a photographer of gardens and landscapes. Her work, as it has manifested itself over the past thirty years, knows no other interest. At the same time, a certain serenity hovers over her pictures. In them, nature seems entirely focused on itself. One immediately notices that human beings are absent. The allure of colors and shapes...
« Je ne peux m’empêcher, atteste Gérard Uféras, d’associer la pratique de l’Art à la notion d’amour et de partage ». (extrait de son livre Etats de grâce, éditions du Fantom)
«Egyptian pack» evokes many associations - here are both Petersburgers favorite topic of werewolves (see the movie of E. Yufit «Corpsmen werewolves») and references to the Perm animal style.
Also we can recall British film «The Wicker Man» (1973) with its ritual procession of the man-beasts, ho...
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