Who to 28th January in the week after Mainz was to make a detour to the local radio station SWR. In the foyer of the House at the Gate "some 150 photographs by the press photographer Herbert Piel from 1975 to 1990 are issued. Among many interesting, moving, upsetting, or smile-making recordings.
∇ A exhibition review here:
2010-12-03
Photography:
Mainz exhibition of works from 1975 to 1990 of Rhineland-Palatinate, photographer Herbert Piel
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ape. Mainz. Press photos. Tens of thousands are every single day, spread by newspapers, journals, websites millions of times. Some advance later become icons of the term documentary. A few of them, the good fortune to be viewed by the viewer even as art. In the "house gate" of the SWR broadcasting center Mainz exhibition brings together the "Please do not smile!" (Until 28.01.2011), almost 150 photographs by Herbert Piel. The selection includes recordings of Rhineland-Palatinate, press photographer made in the years 1975 to 1990.
pictures, painted at state receptions in Mainz, Bonn, Berlin, in reporting tours through the home area or to Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and the Soviet Union, for very personal encounters with interesting people or turbulent news operations.
There's this image of the disputes over the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf anno 1981st In the earlier summary Piel, the Rhein-Zeitung, printed page width, it was a stunning eye-catcher: Optical distance, but is an atmospheric density, which makes the horror of that day in the Wilstermarsch felt. A photo, historic in its power Battle paintings similar - the civilization in the state of emergency, the State einflösende as fear of violence archaic machine. A picture of the historical events documented by choice of subject, perspective, light but also to the dedicated statement.
This ambivalence is reflected in many of Piel's recordings. They often included in the visual subtext comments. Like that 1981 also created a half-naked photo of protesters seeking to escape the building site for the Frankfurt western runway with hands raised to the brachial access heavily armored police. Moments, staged by the events themselves, captured by photographers - because he was the right time at right place and the particular, , the Telling of the moment seen, sensed.
are often the work of Piel's in his own image production to breastfeed, but major accusations: the child victims of radiation from Chernobyl with a candle, praying for hope, the Kurdish old woman in a refugee camp, begging for help more for the grandchildren than for themselves, and the forearm an old woman, from whose chapped skin, the tattooed concentration camp number, decades after the war may disappear any more than the memory of the horror of head and mind ...
Herbert Piel - 1957, born in Neuss, Kleve and Bad Ems grew up, now living as a freelance photographer with his own company in Boppard - came as a self-taught to photography. In 1975 his first photo published in the Rhein-Zeitung. After that he worked for the agencies Reuters, AP and dpa, his pictures in Stern, Bunte and mirrors were printed. The photographic technology to date on all Leica cameras sworn man does not meet the conventional image of press photographers. Desert before pushing celebrity panel discussions are his cause as little as loudly Posing animation. I
Piel in the last 25 years had to experience a few times at work. Sometimes he makes himself almost invisible, even as if the notice does not photograph that he is photographed. Then again, he takes a soft voice and casual chatter of tension situations, directs his "victims" to where and how he wants to scan it. So many are unusual or rare intimate photographs of statesmen / women and artists emerged. Joseph Beuys visited the Eifel, Elizabeth II, Queen Beatrix to visit in Germany, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Li Peng, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Scheel, Herzog, Rau, Keller ...
"Please do not smile" is contemporary historical photo documentation and also a showcase in its own way, interested, critical, and sometimes behave with a smile in small worlds like the great world-sighted photographers from Rhineland-Palatinate. Since it was fitting that the Herbert Edgar Reitz Piel Hunsrück-epic "Heimat III" the Role of the photographer did Black play. Andreas Pecht
exhibition at the radio station SWR Mainz,
until 28.01.2011, Mon - Fri 9-17 clock (except holidays).
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