DFA#30 Wolfram Janzer: Architecture, abstraction, and anarchy

Wolfram Janzer is in a class of his own in contemporary architectural photography. Experts describe his sophisticated play with surfaces and perspectives as “delicate.” An architect himself, he discovered photography as his medium early on. He consistently developed a photographic style in which he pushes architecture and spatial structures to the point of abstraction. The German Photographic Academy, of which he has been a member for 40 years, played an important role in this development.

Curiosity, a spirit of inquiry, immense cultural and historical knowledge, a dose of discomfort, and a passion for images characterize this photographic artist.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Wolfram Janzer talks to Corinna Weidner in this podcast about his development. The formative spirit of Lake Constance, how reduction succeeds and how one can separate oneself from distractions with the camera; the rediscovery of Bomarzo together with Horst Bredekamp; spatial transcriptions in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Elmar Daucher memorial in close-up, and traces of war.

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