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Fotografie, Zeit und Dialektik

Das war ein tiefer Griff ins Archiv. Ich war gerade mal 22 Jahre alt und unterwegs mit meiner ersten gebraucht gekauften Leica. Das Bild entstand im Auftrag für die Wochenzeitung WoZ als Illustration für einen Artikel von Pit Wuhrer über das Finanzzentrum der Londoner City. Zwei Tage rannte ich über die Trottoirs und durch die Strassen des Stadtteils – wo seit kurzem das neue Lloyd’s Bürogebäude stand und dem Finanzzentrum Londons ein modernes Geicht geben sollte. Das Bild der drei Brüder, mit ihren Rücken zur glänzend polierten Aussenmauer aus Granit der Londoner Börse war eine der Szenen die aus den mit nach Hause gebrachten Kontaktbögen herausstach. Das Bild schien das perfekte Argument für die Praxis der Dokumentarfotografie zu sein, ihr Potenzial sowohl das Gesehene als auch das Ungesehene aufzuzeigen, dass die Dialektik des Dokuments das Zusammenspiel von dem Sichtbaren und dem Unsichtbaren, dem Fantastischen und dem Realen ist.

 

GBR_135_0887_0287_36A

70x100cm, Archival Ink on Hahnemühle Hemp

Halbe Distance10 Holz 16, Ahorn natur

Edition 1/10 plus 2 AP

CHF 2’800.00 Normal Glas

CHF 2’950.00 Museum Glas

A deep dive into the archive. I had just turned 22 and was traveling with my first second-hand Leica. The photograph was taken on a commission for Die Wochenzeitung WoZ as an illustration for an article by Pit Wuhrer about the financial center of the City of London. I spent two days running along the sidewalks and through the streets of the City of London. The new Lloyd’s office building was just recently completed. The image of the three brothers, holding their hands, with their back against the shiny polished granite outer wall of the London Stock Exchange was one of the photographs that stood out when I was looking at the contact sheets back home. The image seemed the perfect argument for the practice of documentary photography as bearing the potential to illuminate both the seen and the unseen, that the dialectics of a document is the interplay between the visible and the invisible, the fantastic and the real.

The Last Days of the Art Market

Some masked people for a change” was the title of my last blog entry on 27 February 2020. Reality has certainly caught up with it. Who would have thought that masked people will become a commonplace on our streets, in supermarkets and soon maybe restaurants and schools too?

I was in my studio the other day looking through some of my artwork at my storage and thought in defiance – these are my savings. My collection of prints, framed photographs from past shows, paintings, and mixed media works. Here they are, nicely packed and stacked away, waiting to find a new home, a place where they can be seen and appreciated - the launch of a pandemic art sale!

Edition prints, framed prints, paintings and mixed media works are for sale. Check out the listings.

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I am reaching out to you because you are among the friends, people, and institutions who have bought some of my photographs, prints or paintings in the past. I hope you are all happy with those images, they have become your companions of everyday life, I know some of you are.

Please have a look at the pieces I selected and took from my shelves to make them visible for you. Take your time, feel free to share this page with friends and people you think might be interested. It is not an online shopping experience. It involves the real world. If you are interested in my work, please get in touch, talk to me, ask questions on shipping and payment options or make any suggestions.

In the meantime, my best wishes to all of you, Thomas Kern

https://www.thomaskern.ch/covid19-studio-sale

Edition prints, framed prints, paintings and mixed media works are for sale. Check out the listings.

Edition prints, framed prints, paintings and mixed media works are for sale. Check out the listings.