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Paris Abbesses, 2002
Wolf-Dietrich Weissbach  

Photography : C-print · 33 x 80 x 0.1 cm 13 x 31.5 x 0 inch

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In 1998 Wolf-Dietrich Weissbach began the project of photographing subway stations worldwide as much as possible with the panorama camera (Noblex U 150) on color negative film (negative format: 5 x 12 cm). So far, images have been created in Stockholm, Paris, London, Barcelona, Prague, Stuttgart, and Berlin. The project was funded by the cultural foundation of the Copyright Society Bild-Kunst (Bonn).

Weissbach's works are photographed analog. This means that the moment of exposure remains the only decisive one. Digital post-processing is not possible here. This requires a concentration on the creative use of the technical possibilities that the camera offers. One of the photographic design tools is the combination of long exposure and multiple exposures (sometimes up to thirty exposures on the same piece of film). This reduces the moving people, the moving subways, and other moving objects in the pictures to transparent ghosts that float or stumble, jump, or repeat themselves through the image. In contrast, the architecture becomes even brighter, sharper, and more foregrounded. The rotating lens of the panorama camera offers further possibilities, where only a narrow vertical strip in motion from left to right is exposed at any time. This allows for an extended tracking of moving objects in the direction of the exposure strip within the image field. Conversely, the people and objects moving against the exposure are squeezed together up to the line. Surreal situations emerge, and thus the warning "Mind the Gap" becomes double-edged. It concerns not only the abyss between the subway and the platform but also the abysses that can creep into our perception.

Architecture

Train station

Travel

Paris

Grey

Red

Wolf-Dietrich Weissbach, Paris Abbesses

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