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Background information
“In 1978, the two photographers Arno FISCHER and Sibylle BERGEMANN bought a new farmhouse in Margaretenhof, furnished it as a place to live and work, laid out a garden and pond and built aviaries for all kinds of birds. Since then, he has used a Polaroid camera to laconically photograph details and still lifes in his refuge. He was interested in the alienation effect caused by the peculiarity of the Polaroids as well as the immediate availability of a unique result without any further work process.
He arranged the Polaroids into triptychs, whereby in this arrangement they took on an evidential quality reminiscent of Paul Klee's term 'the essentialization of the accidental'.
Content
The out-of-print photo volume 'Der Garten / The Garden' by Arno FISCHER contains a selection of this now thirty-year-long work and is presented here for the first time in book form.” (© Hatje Cantz, 2007)
Reception
“How beautiful can a plain Polaroid be when the right person takes it in the right light.” (© Neues Deutschland)
About German photographer, Arno FISCHER (1927-2011)
Photo books by and with works by Arno FISCHER
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Thomas Leonhardi-Museum, Martin
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 34 x 23 x 2 cm., 88 pp., 126 color ills., 950 gr., text language: English