Description

Today, landscape photography is divided into two opposing world views: in one, there is always a cloudy sky, and in the other, the sun is always brilliantly shining. The gray on gray that dominates contemporary fine arts landscape photography is a stark contrast to the exaggerated blues of tourist advertising. Neither have any sense of reality that would include the natural beauty of appropriated nature and thus avoid the lie of selective framing. Thus, the prize-winning first volume of Sight-_Seeing was dedicated to developing this kind of picture of the Tyrolean summer landscape. This book, featuring the photographs of Hans Herbig, Verena Kathrein, Jörg Koopmann, Regina Recht, Sebastian Schels, and Alexander Ziegler, is a continuation of Wolfgang Scheppe s project, Bildwürdigkeit und Sehenswürdigkeit ( worth photographing and worth seeing ), but with the winter landscape, instead. Here, not only is a different weather situation depicted, but we also see the omnipresent commercial exploitation of the space through winter sports.
Exhibition schedule: FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, November 7-22, 2012