Publisher Note english german
One of the few artists currently exploring the effects of the view from below is the photographer Chris Dreier. The wonder – or rather the wondering – that her black-white-grey pinhole camera pictures show from a perspective close to the ground consists in the fact that the places photographed appear to be under a Sleeping Beauty spell. Is there access to them, or do they remain closed? Can they be woken up, or must they be left asleep? Will the twilight that prevails in them fade away, or will increasing darkness swallow everything that is visible?
"The Grim North" is the name of Dreier's photo series, and this north, with its leaden sky and wet asphalt, its dark deserted streets and seemingly sealed houses, is really grim. Its places are: Belfast, Derry, and Berlin. All of them are places marked by visible and invisible boundaries and hot and cold wars – and where the shadows tell stories of terror, hatred, and dogmatisms of faith. Chris Dreier approaches them discreetly. Her only tools are a medium-sized cookie jar with a hole drilled into it and a low-sensitive film waiting behind the hole to be exposed for forty minutes – or longer. That's all. If she is interested in a particular location, she places her cookie jar on the pavement or roadside. Then the only thing that could draw attention is her standing there, waiting.
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Release Place | Berlin, Germany |
Edition | 1st edition |
Release Date | 2008 |
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978-3-940999-01-6
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Original Price | 8.00 € |
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Methods | Photography, Pinhole Photography |
Language | German, English |
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Binding | stapled |
Dimensions | 14.6 × 21.0 cm |
Weight | 100 gram |
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Pages | 30 |
Content | 24 b&w photographs |