Frank Röth - Photographs 1989-2008
Galerie Taube
Frank Röth: Der Rote Platz im Winter (Moskau 1998)
© Frank Röth
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Does anyone still know the meaning of 'a wilderness of print'? We have long since grown accustomed to photographic reproductions in books and journals. And now they have got onto the front pages of all the daily papers, in colour. This is a reason why I like remembering how the Berliner Seiten (1999-2002, coming from the Mittelstrasse) first featured, among other well printed and exceptionally attractive photographs, the name of Frank Röth. All these were still in black and white, based on the technique of film exposure using an optical camera, and developed by immersing the negative in the laboratory. Now Frank Röth is working as a reproduction photographer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, using digital photographic technology as well. Digital technology hardly recognises any difference between colour and black and white. But the photographer is all the more aware of the difference, and can see the design challenge he is faced with more clearly when he dispenses with colour.
In the last resort, form is the final aim of all kinds of art. As is well known, this remains a mystery to the uninitiated majority. The present exhibition therefore consists exclusively of black and white prints. (Klaus Märtens)
Artist(s)
Frank Röth
Duration of the exhibition
1. - 29.11.2008
Vernissage
31.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
DiFr 1619 h,
Sa 1114 h
and by arrangement
Location
Galerie Taube
Pariser Straße 54 / Ecke Fasanenstraße
10719 Berlin
T 0049 30 8835694
Public transport connections
U Spichernstraße; Bus 248 Pariser Straße