örte Eißfeldt’s works in these series were created in 2013 in the Sierra Nevada as well as in the North Californian Redwood National Parks near the coast on the border with Oregon. Her concern was to capture the particular impression which these “monarchs of the forest” leave behind in a fitting artistic expression. For she has always dealt with the issue of the image’s qualities. “My aim is to turn the photographic, the medium as process, into an object. I want the photographic image to take a portrait of itself, so to speak.” (Dörte Eißfeldt)
Wildniß written with an SZ – given the artist’s name, intention is, of course, swiftly suspected. And no sooner has one tripped over this stumbling block than one is thinking about the theme WILDNIS, Wilderness. Today, in the Anthropocene era, the question arises whether a nature untouched by man, a genuine wilderness, even still exists? Or whether all areas of wilderness are not actually anthropogenically influenced cultivated landscapes? According to National Geographic, in 2008 just 17% of the Earth’s ice-free surface area (including the oceans) was without any sign of human activity.
Dörte Eißfeldt
Redwood # 2
2014 Silbergelatine-Barytpapier
© Dörte Eißfeldt
In Dörte Eißfeldt’s series Redwood, Grizzly and Fog Drip the subject is t...