Photo 111104.4, 2011

by Gottfried Jäger

Photography : digigraphy, archival pigment print 70 x 100 x 3 cm 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

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Medium

Photography: digigraphy, archival pigment print

Dimensions cm inch

70 x 100 x 3 cm 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Abstract artworks

Circle

Sky

God

Eclipse

Navy blue

Dark blue

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Artwork location: Germany

"My early photographic works were guided by the empiric experimental method of ‘trial and error’. In this, I followed the German experimental photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke (1893–1983). From the mid 1960s on, and under the influence of philosopher Max Bense’s (1910–1990) ‘generative aesthetics’, logical sequences of images began to develop, which consequently led to the introduction of the term ‘generative photography’ as a title for an exhibition with fellow artists at Kunsthaus Bielefeld in 1968.

The program based on the idea of an ‚image-given’ (not ‚image-taken’) photography, rests upon a systematic constructivist notion. This has been dominating my work until this day– even though I have gradually extended its margins. Starting in 1983, ‘photomaterialistic works‘, photo objects, photo assemblages, photo installations, were created. With these I study the fundamental photographic elements light and light sensitivity in materials with regard to their qualities in the imaging procedure. The project is still being continued. Since the early 1990s, I have been involving digital methods and the computer in the generative program. Hereby, the ‘emanation of light‘ (Franz Roh) is no longer the central issue but serves as a reference for my interest in its simulation.

Thus, the ‘photo’ series – which started with first works in 2004 – is based on the implementation of the customized computer image processing application Adobe Photoshop™. However, it is not used for its original purpose – to process a photograph. Instead, the program produces its own images, pure syntax and form. One could say the program plays with itself whereby its syntactic qualities feature perceivably, as there is no pictorial motive that interferes or ‘disrupts’ its self reference. Merely the formal structure of the program is made visible, its degrees of brightness, contrasts, colors, textures, etc. This does not result in depictions (icons) or ideograms (symbols), but solely in formal images (symptoms) – formalisms. One can also call this ‘photographisms’ (J.A. Schmoll aka Eisenwerth), as they refer to the photographic canon of form. They become the objects in our observation."

Gottfried Jäger, July 2011
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Gottfried Jäger

Germany  • 1937

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Gottfried Jäger unites many aspects that are characteristic and relevant for German Photography after the Second World War. He is an artist, a mediator, a curator, a scientist, and an initiator of many projects.

Gottfried Jäger completed an apprenticeship in Photography. He passed his examination (Gesellenprüfung) in Bielefeld and his examination for the Master Craftsman’s diploma (Meisterprüfung) in Cologne. He studied at the Staatliche Höhere Fachschule für Photographie in Cologne (today University of Applied Sciences). Between 1960 and 1972 he worked as specialist teacher for Photography at the Werkkunstschule Bielefeld, from 1972 to 2002 he was a professor for Photography teaching the Artistic Basics of Photography, and Photographic and Generative Imaging Systems (Generative Bildsysteme). In the year 2011 he was awarded a doctorate at the University Bielefeld for his work on microphotographer Carl Strüwe.

Gottfried Jäger founded the Bielefeld School of Photography (Bielefelder Schule der Fotografie) and gave essential impulses for the orientation and the topics of study in Bielefeld for decades. The legendary symposia on photography were known all over Germany and have become an important institution for the development of photographic theory over the course of the last 30 years.

Jäger developed the term Generative Photography in the 1960s and worked collaboratively with Herbert W. Franke, Hein Gravenhorst, Kilian Breier, Pierre Cordier, and Karl Martin Holzhäuser. His artistic work, including photographic paper works, photo objects, and installations, is completed by his historical and art historical research on the history of Generative Photography. His oeuvre, which is singular in Germany, was honored with the Cultural Prize of the German Photographic Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photography, DGPh) in 2014.
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