Ingar Krauss: 39 Bilder

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In ‘39 Bilder’, Ingar Krauss presents 39 still lifes, the subjects of which he draws from the rural surroundings of his photography studio in Oderbruch: vegetables, fruit, grain, flowers and animals; he photographs them using analogue techniques under natural light in homemade light boxes, develops and enlarges the images in his own darkroom, and finally finishes them by hand with a glaze of oil paint. His images appear surreal, sometimes sombre, always timeless; they follow no trend and cannot be attributed to any particular school. He draws his inspiration from his direct experience of the landscape, farming, the seasons and moods – although, with these new images, one might speak of portraits rather than still lifes.

The book’s design was developed by Hartmann Books in close collaboration with Ingar Krauss and the editor Suzy Shammah. The cover material and paper have been deliberately chosen to present the photographs in a manner that is perfectly suited to the book format.
The essay by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler (‘Wer Stillleben lebt, lebt drinnen’), available in both German and English, is more than just the standard accompaniment now customary in photobooks – his text is an independent and highly readable literary commentary on the visual task of the still life, its history and its subject matter, following on from the interpretation of the images.

Following several catalogues, '39 Bilder' is now Ingar Krauss’s (b. 1965, Berlin) second monograph. His first book, 'Portraits', published in 2005 and featuring portraits of children and young people, had already demonstrated his distinctive position within the contemporary photographic art scene.

Text in English and German.

Essay by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler.

©Photography by Ingar Krauss