Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin - Exhibitions (in chronological order)

Encounters

Portraits aus der 'Camera IMAGO1:1'

Uferhallen

Camera Imago 1:1
2006 © Annegret Kohlmayer
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The Camera Imago1:1 was constructed in the early 1970s by the physicist Werner Kraus and the goldsmith Erhard Hössle. It measures 7 by 4 by 3 metres in length, height and width and is the biggest walk-in camera in the world for taking life-size portraits. The visitor enters the Camera, closes the door and encounters his own laterally correct image in the mirror, like a stranger. With the help of a special lens and an automatic shutter release, he will be projected onto a sheet of silver gelatine reversal paper measuring 60 by 200 cm. After having functioned successfully for a decade, the camera had to be put into storage at the start of the eighties, as it was no longer possible to obtain the positive paper that was required. Three decades after this, the actress and artist Susanna Kraus succeeded in finding a manufacturer for the special black-and-white positive paper, and since 2006 the Camera IMAGO1:1 has been up and running again.
The exhibition shows life-sized portraits. For the duration of the exhibition, it will be possible for interested visitors to make a self-portrait with the walk-in Camera IMAGO1:1.

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