Statement

In the sense of the concept of an objective and strict advertising photography, which was oriented towards the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and the Bauhaus, I worked on commissions from 1958 to 1968. Through regular visits to Paris until today, the view of this city has always appealed to me. Over the years, photography has become more and more important as a visual medium. I have never thought of documentation, but have always taken individual images with a focusing level as a starting point in order to emphasize an accent. In the further course of my second study of art history, philosophy and journalism, the examination of the image and its characteristics have become increasingly important to me. I would like to emphasize that image and language are very different media for me and I have concentrated my accent either on photography or writing. Since 1978 I have been intensively engaged with visual perception, which at the time with the investigations on the brain gave very interesting impulses to newly think about reality and image, about image and image. The result is a book published by Springerverlag (Heidelberg 2003), which was published in its 2nd edition in 2011. The reflection on these topics also influenced my practical work. Irritations of the Staging Photography, motion depiction on the static image and abstractions are the experimental fields on which I test the means of the image. In teaching, I was able to reflect very well on the theory and history of photography and film, whereby I was able to work with the students on image examples to gain further insights.