Gottfried Jäger (*1937) is one of the most important photographers and photo theorists of the post-war period. Alongside Otto Steinert (Essen) and Bernd and Hilla Becher (Düsseldorf), Jäger influenced generations of photographers with his abstract photography and his teaching at the FH Bielefeld. In the 1960’s he developed the concept of „ge-nerative photography“: it’s not about reproduction, but of a creation of new images. In this process, the photo-graphic means themselves become the object, the medium the object. Therefore, Jäger is called a „photographer of photography“ (B. Stiegler). After his work has been marginalized for a long time, the retrospective, developed in cooperation with the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, will unfold the artist‘s most important creative forms and periods.
Focusing on the material and tactile properties of the medium, this exhibition is the first contemporary survey to highlight the global practice of cameraless photography across generations, cultures, and ideologies. Highlighting many emerging global artists and featureing primarily women-identifying artists, we are pleased that the photograph of Australian photographer Danica Chappell has been selected by the curator Lauren Richman.
ALBARRAN CABRERA NEW REPRESENTATION
Albarrán Cabrera are the photographers Anna Cabrera (b. 1969, Sevilla) and Angel Albarrán (b. 1969, Barcelona) who work together as a collaborative duo based in Barcelona. They are particularly interested in memories. There aim is to play with viewers’ memories and to construct a representation inside their minds. Albarrán Cabrera see their photographs as objects, focusing not only on the image itself, but also on its physical manifestation as printed copies. They personally handcraft their prints in their studio using a wide range of processes and materials either by inventing new techniques or by experimenting with established ones expanding their “photographic syntax”.