Michael Ruetz
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Michael Ruetz, the family of dog
With The Family of Dog, Michael Ruetz has created a unique photographic series over the last 50 years that presents a subtle and enlightening depiction of people and their social behavior. Dogs, after all, are what we want to see in them and what we make of them. In the rarest case, a dog is simply an animal. Michael Ruetz photographed dogs on the street, at homes, on the beach or in front of the TV, which usually makes them fall asleep. He depicts them alone, with cats and cows and again and again as man's companion. Ruetz avoids any mise-en-scène and imposing himself on the animals. Occasional provocative payoffs result from patient observation. As man in his daily routine, dogs slide into odd situations all the time. In this sincere and nevertheless ironic book, Michael Ruetz shows the various forms of cani... - Exposition
« Vis-à-Vis »
There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90 th birthday celebration in Bonn. The image, published in the magazine „Kristall”, shows nothing more than the left eye of the aged chancellor. The rest is covered by the portly body of a stranger. But this eye was already enough. The magazine photo engaged the reader in a dialogue. What really moved Adenauer on this winter day, what he saw or... - Exposition
Exhibition : Women Powerful and Powerless
Virtual Exhibition: 19 January – 19 July 2015 One of the hallmarks of the Teutloff Photo + Video Collection is that although it’s focused on the human body, it always carries a distinct political component. This fact created the idea for a so far unknown vantage point on the Collection – a "woman’s view" became the new approach for a virtual exhibition.
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Under the heading "Women: Powerful and Powerless" previously ignored or even discounted links between works and exciting new issues and areas of interest are opened – and I say this without any wish to enter the hotly contested ground of feminist polemics. The feminine view of the collection moves in the field of tension between birth, religion, politics, sexuality, beauty and body protest. It ... - Exposition
Michael Ruetz « The family of dog »
With "The Family of Dog", Michael Ruetz has created, over the last 50 years, a unique body of photographic work. Superficially, these images might appear to pay tribute to the established forms of animal photography. But a second, more focused view shows that the reverse is true. Ruetz' pictures are as far removed from those of the animal specialists as they are from the images of classical painting. Some of the dogs in his photographs are shown with humans or with other animals, such as cows and cats, or with household implements or landscape features. For that reason, "The Family of Dog" is also a subtle and evocative portrayal of people and of social behaviour. This is a crucial difference between Ruetz’ pictures and those of Erwitt and Wegman, despite the shared aim of enabling animal... - Exposition
Michael Ruetz - Eye on Infinity II
Photographs are repositories of time – but in a paradoxical sense, since the time they preserve or show remains unspecified. A millisecond exposure depicts the same surface, perspective and spatial situation as an image with an exposure time of fourteen hours. This, precisely, is the theme of Michael Ruetz’ Eye on Infinity project, portraying the effect of time in shaping images which themselves have a different temporal existence. The technical means employed may suggest a form of Romantic landscape photography, but in fact, – as in the work of many Romantic artists of the early nineteenth century, before and during the invention of photography – the conception of the project has a rigorous, scientific logic. It relies, however, on models from painting and literature, instead of taking its lea... - Exposition
Eye on Life- Michael Ruetz
The pictures of political demonstrations and from student communes in Berlin by Michael Ruetz have become a permanent element of German memory culture; hardly any conversation about the events of that time can do without a reference to these photographs – they have been stamped, like coins, into the memory. But for Ruetz himself these pictures were not imaginable without the other ones, there were no student demonstrations without the bourgeois daily life out of which these had sprung, no critical university without cramming in knowledge in seminars or libraries, no new type of self-realization without practise in living together beyond the given convention. Above all there was no West Berlin freedom without the niche society in the GDR in the eastern part of the city, where they also had their freedoms, but far be... - Exposition
Michael Ruetz 1968 The Uncomfortable Time
The Academy of Arts is dedicating a large exhibition with photography by Michael Ruetz to the decade around 1968. Michael Ruetz influenced the image of '68 as did hardly any other artist. Many of his photographs are a part of our visual memory. However, Ruetz is far more than merely the reporter of this period in time. As a student of Sinology, he grew into the role of the documentary-maker as an active part of a movement. His pictures live from this proximity to the events, from a feeling for situations and the view of people: in the 130 photographs, mainly black and white, the emotionality of the period at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s comes to life again.
The exhibition not only documents the dynamics of the political movement of '68. It shows the protagonists of this period from Dutschke to B...
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With The Family of Dog, Michael Ruetz has created a unique photographic series over the last 50 years that presents a subtle and enlightening depiction of people and their social behavior. Dogs, after all, are what we want to see in them and what we make of them. In the rarest case, a dog is simply an animal. Michael Ruetz photographed dogs on the street, at homes, on the beach or in front of the TV, which usually makes them fall asleep. He depicts them alone, with cats and cows and again and again as man's companion. Ruetz avoids any mise-en-scène and imposing himself on the animals. Occasional provocative payoffs result from patient observation. As man in his daily routine, dogs slide into odd situations all the time. In this sincere and nevertheless ironic book, Michael Ruetz shows the various forms of cani...
There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90 th birthday celebration in Bonn. The image, published in the magazine „Kristall”, shows nothing more than the left eye of the aged chancellor. The rest is covered by the portly body of a stranger. But this eye was already enough. The magazine photo engaged the reader in a dialogue. What really moved Adenauer on this winter day, what he saw or...
Virtual Exhibition: 19 January – 19 July 2015 One of the hallmarks of the Teutloff Photo + Video Collection is that although it’s focused on the human body, it always carries a distinct political component. This fact created the idea for a so far unknown vantage point on the Collection – a "woman’s view" became the new approach for a virtual exhibition.
©Teutloff.net
Under the heading "Women: Powerful and Powerless" previously ignored or even discounted links between works and exciting new issues and areas of interest are opened – and I say this without any wish to enter the hotly contested ground of feminist polemics. The feminine view of the collection moves in the field of tension between birth, religion, politics, sexuality, beauty and body protest. It ...
With "The Family of Dog", Michael Ruetz has created, over the last 50 years, a unique body of photographic work. Superficially, these images might appear to pay tribute to the established forms of animal photography. But a second, more focused view shows that the reverse is true. Ruetz' pictures are as far removed from those of the animal specialists as they are from the images of classical painting. Some of the dogs in his photographs are shown with humans or with other animals, such as cows and cats, or with household implements or landscape features. For that reason, "The Family of Dog" is also a subtle and evocative portrayal of people and of social behaviour. This is a crucial difference between Ruetz’ pictures and those of Erwitt and Wegman, despite the shared aim of enabling animal...
Photographs are repositories of time – but in a paradoxical sense, since the time they preserve or show remains unspecified. A millisecond exposure depicts the same surface, perspective and spatial situation as an image with an exposure time of fourteen hours. This, precisely, is the theme of Michael Ruetz’ Eye on Infinity project, portraying the effect of time in shaping images which themselves have a different temporal existence. The technical means employed may suggest a form of Romantic landscape photography, but in fact, – as in the work of many Romantic artists of the early nineteenth century, before and during the invention of photography – the conception of the project has a rigorous, scientific logic. It relies, however, on models from painting and literature, instead of taking its lea...
The pictures of political demonstrations and from student communes in Berlin by Michael Ruetz have become a permanent element of German memory culture; hardly any conversation about the events of that time can do without a reference to these photographs – they have been stamped, like coins, into the memory. But for Ruetz himself these pictures were not imaginable without the other ones, there were no student demonstrations without the bourgeois daily life out of which these had sprung, no critical university without cramming in knowledge in seminars or libraries, no new type of self-realization without practise in living together beyond the given convention. Above all there was no West Berlin freedom without the niche society in the GDR in the eastern part of the city, where they also had their freedoms, but far be...
The Academy of Arts is dedicating a large exhibition with photography by Michael Ruetz to the decade around 1968. Michael Ruetz influenced the image of '68 as did hardly any other artist. Many of his photographs are a part of our visual memory. However, Ruetz is far more than merely the reporter of this period in time. As a student of Sinology, he grew into the role of the documentary-maker as an active part of a movement. His pictures live from this proximity to the events, from a feeling for situations and the view of people: in the 130 photographs, mainly black and white, the emotionality of the period at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s comes to life again.
The exhibition not only documents the dynamics of the political movement of '68. It shows the protagonists of this period from Dutschke to B...