Classical angles, soft available light, linear clarity, textures in concrete and stone, Berlin based Von Rauch is a current inspiration for much of the architectural work including the Get Carter and Pasmore series’. She: “seeks out places and buildings, which in her photographs seem at once strange and familiar. Using an analog camera and the most diffuse, natural light possible, she creates images of mysterious abstraction. In her intensive photographic exploration of architecture, she has developed a very personal visual language, reacting differently to each new place, but always managing to retain her unmistakable approach.” More of Andre Lepik’s erudite expose of her techniques on a PDF here.
How on earth does one get the likes of a brilliant Director of MoMA to review one’s work? Serious question.
Part of a new category for this site, which is in desperate need of reorganisation, as the beginning of assembling some maturity here. Not that there won’t also be some occasional fun and games, but it’s time to get serious, too.
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Gateshead and Peterlee don’t seem to have quite the same ambience as her Berlin photos, do they? I’m not talking about your photography in that, only that neglect seems to be an inevitable aspect of almost any public building or space in this country.
Avoiding architects like Owen Luder would help too of course…
here’s my 2 cents, with an antipodean bent, one of the art worlds great mysteries I’m afraid is getting noticed, being a “networker” helps [ i feel] citing the correct issues in your applications for exhibitions, here in Oz is imperative, some galleries have open door days, I’m lead to believe, the MOMA in particular.
Ian, you have a point. Neglect and litter seem to characterise our concrete structures. We just don’t love them. On the other hand, there’s always a fair amount of litter in Grey Street too.
Poor Owen Luder. I cannot imagine how it must feel to have one’s whole life’s work so disparaged.
Stuart: of course you are right about the marketing. And finding a way to show the work that is fresh, perhaps. Melbourne doesn’t have litter and grime problems with its concrete, does it? Seems like such a clean city, very like a modern European capital.