Eiffel Tower ⁺

In the 19^th cen­tury the first pho­to­gra­phers star­ted to accom­pany scien­tific expe­d­itions to docu­ment foreign land­scapes and monu­ments like the pyra­mids in Egypt. Since then photo­gra­phy as a me­dium is close­ly connec­ted with travell­ing as it informs the ones, who stayed home. With the in­ven­tion of the 35 mm film and later the cell­phone-camera the ima­ges from abroad be­came a mass phe­no­me­non.

The series Eiffel Tower⁺ is based on the rapid­ly grow­ing col­lec­tions of photos, which emerge casual­ly, when travel­lers compete with the best images on the net. Austere classi­fica­tions are used to investi­gate the photo­graphic stag­ing of one of the most photo­graphed buil­dings in the world, the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Sorted by predominant elements in the back­ground of the »Iron Lady« the images form an ab­surd ar­chive of ab­stract com­po­sitions, in which the main mo­tive, the tower, was re­moved with a scalpel. 

The visual col­lection is com­ple­men­ted with texts that are based on des­crip­tions of the main subject.

Per­sonal en­riches public, blends and asks ques­tions about the photo­gra­phic exa­mina­tion with the distance.

Eiffel Tower⁺, c-prints, 125 × 100 cm (⁺Flora, ⁺Black), 90 × 70 cm (⁺Blue), inkjet on paper, 50 × 40 cm (Herself, Time, Perspective), 2014