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The Japan Series - Andreas Gefeller
Art changes one's view upon reality. To heighten awareness and expand our perception of a supposedly well-known reality is the central aspiration of the works by Düsseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gefeller. „The Japan Series“ is his youngest series following „Supervisions“ and originated on the occasion of the project „European Eyes on Japan“, in which European photographers are invited annually to work in this Far Eastern country.
The series' focus lies on the „Poles“. Gefeller photographs electricity posts in at least two single upward views from a perpendicular posi...
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Andreas Gefeller Supervisions - New works
Ever since the digital technology noisily and overwhelmingly stormed onto the field of photography, the medium has had to wince repeatedly at the question about the degree to which its traditionally distinctive characteristic, namely an indissoluble connection to the factual, still remains capable of providing a meaningful basis for photographic discourse. In his astounding and precisely balanced pictural projects, Andreas Gefeller offers evidence of the type of foundations which may be laid down here without subsiding into anachronistic documentary fetishism. After the early work complexes Halbwertszeiten (1996) and Soma (2000), he has achie...
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