Life in the Cities
Street photography by Rudi Meisel
loftgalerie für Fotografie
Rudi Meisel: Via Nazionale, Rom 2005
2005 © Rudi Meisel / loftgalerie.de
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When we take into account the way in which todays artistic photography has taken possession of the subject matter of traditional street photography, even if in colour and in large picture formats, the black and white street photographs of Rudi Meisel are occasion for comment. Here is an artist who takes conventional photographs of European big cities and deliberately lays himself open to the mistaken impression that they originate in an earlier decade. This irritates the viewer. When Meisel moves from Berlin, where he lives, to the big city abroad, his vision for the remarkable phenomenon occurring on his doorstep becomes still more acute. What may he not yet find, in the driven chaos of the streets, calling for interpretation? The streets mutate to a stage, and passers-by become the actors of their time. This could have been captured in moving pictures, but a visual continuum of that kind would lack the formal concentration with which Rudi Meisel as a photographer is concerned. His pictures compress, take moments as the basis for a readable reality to emerge.
Dr Enno Kaufhold will give an introductory address at the opening of the exhibition.
Theme
Urban Lifestyles
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Artist(s)
Rudi Meisel
Duration of the exhibition
5.11. - 17.12.2010
Vernissage
4.11.2010, 19 h
Finissage
17.12.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Di-Fr 14-19 h, Sa 12-16 h
and by arrangement
Location
loftgalerie für Fotografie
Friesickestraße 18
13086 Berlin
T 0049 30 92372325
Public transport connections
Tram 12, M13 Friesickestr.
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