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Examples
: Bathroom (the site of Uwe Barschel’s death), Stasi headquar-
ters after the storm, tunnel (site of Lady Diana’s death) or Jackson Pol-
lock’s studio.
C-prints in oversized formats of approx. 2 x 3 m, very limited editions.
•
William Eggleston
(4, 5)
*1939, American photographer, gained his international reputation
through his pioneer work in the context of the emerging colour photo-
graphy of the 1960s. Eggleston influenced the following generation of
photo artists, such asWall, Sherman, Tillmanns and also some Becher
students.
Concept
: Psychologisation of colour. Attempts to elevate objects of eve-
ryday life to magical
objects and everyday routines to magical sequences which take place
outside the regularity of expectations.
Eggleston’s photographic prints are often dye transfers and are
available in sizes of e.g. 9 x 13 cm to 30 x 40 cm. Very limited to limited
editions.
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Andreas Gursky
(6, 7)
*1955, Becher student, most successful internationally acclaimed Ger-
man photographer.
Concept
: Shoots large crowds in modern life and structures of a globali-
sed world. The photographs are scanned and altered in the computer
until they resemble Gursky’s notion of the idealised image. C-prints in
oversized formats of more than 5 meters in width, very limited editi-
ons.
Most expensive contemporary photographer. Solo exhibition at MoMA
in 1998, extensive retrospective at
Haus der Kunst
in Munich in 2007.
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Thomas Ruff
(8, 9,10)
*1958, well-known German photographer, Becher student from 1977 to
1985, professor in Düsseldorf from 2000 to 2006 as Becher’s successor.
Series
: Interiors of German living spaces, over-sized portraits, views of
buildings, photographs of the star-lit sky, photographs made with night
vision gear, images of newspaper clippingss without title, alienated
porn pictures, abstract computer-generated colour tones, photographs
of machines.
Concept
: the opus is very extensive, and a comprehensive concept
across the different series cannot be distinguished, except for a stan-
dardised photographic technique. However, the different series viewed
individually follow various conceptual ideas.
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Stephen Shore
(11, 12)
*1947, internationally acclaimed US photographer, one of the early
protagonists of colour photography besides Eggleston and Haas.
Concept
: Photographs of banal American urban objects, such as resi-
dential areas, petrol stations and intersections. These are meant to be-
