Olaf Otto becker
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View Photography Magazine saute à pieds joints dans la mare, fier de vous présenter son premier dossier thématique ! Pour ce sujet primordial, photographes, maisons d’éditions, grandes agences photo, tous se sont mouillés. L’eau est un sujet riche, infini, qui fascine, provoque de grands mouvements, soulève de nombreuses questions qui, pour l’occasion, rassemblent plus qu’elles ne divisent… L’eau coule ici librement, d’un regard à l’autre, abordée collectivement et sans limite aucune, ni géographique, ni formelle. Ce dossier a été rendu possible grâce aux photographes, à leur témoignage, aux textes – cartes blanches rédactionnelles – proposés pour acco... - Festival
Alt plus 1000, festival de photographie de montagne
Les montagnes ont été propices à l’affirmation des identités, en Suisse, comme ailleurs dans le monde. Le thème ne cesse de passionner les artistes depuis les excursions dans les Alpes du peintre Caspar Wolf au XVIIIe siècle. Le paysage de montagne a ainsi attiré les premières générations de photographes au XIXe siècle, qui sont parvenus rapidement à produire d’extraordinaires images. En ce début du XXIe siècle, la montagne nous montre soudain une certaine fragilité à mesure que l’humain occupe son territoire. Que reste-t-il des mythes qui lui sont liés? Les montagnes sont-elles encore source d’inspiration pour les créateurs d’aujourd’hui? Quelle perception e... - Exposition
Exhibition : WERKSCHAU by Olaf Otto Becker
Greenland’s light and it’s coastline, the primeval forests of Malaysia and Indonesia or the architecture of Singapore - Olaf Otto Becker’s photographic expeditions are a search for traces in compelling landscapes.
The pictures in "Broken Line" (2007) show a seemingly unaffected landscape, the traces of human intervention barely visible on closer inspection. In the second series, "Above Zero" (2009), the images already show the consequences of industrial growth in western societies quite plainly - new streams and rivers spring from Greenland’s sooted snowscape and dig deep trenches into the ice.
In his recent work, "Reading the Landscape" (2014), Olaf Otto Becker goes one step further, he takes the viewer from the unaffected primeval forests of Malaysia and Indon... - Exposition
Olaf Otto Becker exposes Reading the Landscape at Galerie f 5,6
With his new project Olaf Otto Becker is distancing himself from his former field of attention. He is leaving behind the icebergs, glaciers and snowmelt rivers, turning towards the earths’ forests. The comprehensive project Reading the Landscape consists of three chapters and depicts the characteristics of three specific habitats. Untouched biotopes in Malaysia, Indonesia and North America are captured in all their glory.
© Olaf Otto Becker
Becker is showing us lush, green landscapes and rivers – photographs of ideal places, meeting our expectation of exotic rainforests. An assumption that is to be destroyed in the projects’ second chapter, in which Becker uncovers the consequences of industrial clearing. The last chapter of Reading the Landscape can be read as an imagined return to the... - Exposition
La Biennale Internationale de l'image de Nancy
En trois décennies, cette manifestation a accueilli les plus grands noms de la photographie, Depardon comme Doisneau, Gina Lollobrigida et Edouard Boubat, Lucien Clergue ou Komaro Hoshino, Roland et Sabrina Michaud ou, voilà deux ans encore, Willy Ronis. Elle est devenue la plus importante du grand est de la France et une des plus originales du genre puisque les organisateurs obligent les photographes et autres créateurs d’images à plancher sur un seul thème. Il y eut celui de la femme (bien sûr !) des péchés capitaux ou (en 2008) de la rue. Voici cette année 1336 œuvres diverses ayant pour point commun les quatre éléments (ou l’un d’eux). La terre, l’eau, le feu ... - Exposition
Amador Gallery participation in Art Miami 2009
Munich-based photographer Robert Voit has discovered a new kind of tree that is sprouting up all over the world: the cellular phone antenna tree, made from steel, fiberglass and plastic, molded to resemble a real tree, and clad with fake branches and leaves. Dubbing these weird sore thumbs “new trees,” Voit has found all kinds of specimens--pine, palm, cypress, cactus--throughout the world, in deserts or in the middle of newly planted forests, in fields and parking lots, next to highways or in housing developments. The artificiality of these “new trees” readily declares itself--they are necessarily taller than most trees, their antennae are often visible through the leaves, or the trunks may be marked with warnings to keep away--and even without these clues they stick out from their surroundings a... - Exposition
Olaf Otto Becker - Above zero
Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker (born in Travemünde, Germany in 1959) turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker's spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome large-format camera. His photo studies draw out the overwhelming beauty of this icy landscape, while documenting their present fragility: dust and rust in the air form black, crusty deposits, which, in conjunction with global warming, accelerate the melting of the ice sheets--with what will probably be inevitable, catastrophic results. Becker wa... - Exposition
Olaf Otto Becker
Galerie f5,6 is proud to announce an exhibition with internationally renowned German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959, Travemünde, Germany). The works are from his new series Broken Line, (published by Hatje Cantz). This publication was awarded with the German Photo book prize 2008.
Between 2003 and 2006 Olaf Otto Becker travelled almost 4000 km along the West Coast of Greenland on his own, in a small dingy. The sole purpose of his trip was to portray this coastal region with his 8 x 10 inch large format camera. Olaf Otto Becker reached the 75th Northern degree latitude of Melville Bay in his little boat. Similar to a 19th Century painter Becker portrayed the landscape, accentuating its silence, melancholy and the sublime of a land known only to few. Similar to an explorer, Becker's work is pervade...
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View Photography Magazine saute à pieds joints dans la mare, fier de vous présenter son premier dossier thématique ! Pour ce sujet primordial, photographes, maisons d’éditions, grandes agences photo, tous se sont mouillés. L’eau est un sujet riche, infini, qui fascine, provoque de grands mouvements, soulève de nombreuses questions qui, pour l’occasion, rassemblent plus qu’elles ne divisent… L’eau coule ici librement, d’un regard à l’autre, abordée collectivement et sans limite aucune, ni géographique, ni formelle. Ce dossier a été rendu possible grâce aux photographes, à leur témoignage, aux textes – cartes blanches rédactionnelles – proposés pour acco...
Les montagnes ont été propices à l’affirmation des identités, en Suisse, comme ailleurs dans le monde. Le thème ne cesse de passionner les artistes depuis les excursions dans les Alpes du peintre Caspar Wolf au XVIIIe siècle. Le paysage de montagne a ainsi attiré les premières générations de photographes au XIXe siècle, qui sont parvenus rapidement à produire d’extraordinaires images. En ce début du XXIe siècle, la montagne nous montre soudain une certaine fragilité à mesure que l’humain occupe son territoire. Que reste-t-il des mythes qui lui sont liés? Les montagnes sont-elles encore source d’inspiration pour les créateurs d’aujourd’hui? Quelle perception e...
Greenland’s light and it’s coastline, the primeval forests of Malaysia and Indonesia or the architecture of Singapore - Olaf Otto Becker’s photographic expeditions are a search for traces in compelling landscapes.
The pictures in "Broken Line" (2007) show a seemingly unaffected landscape, the traces of human intervention barely visible on closer inspection. In the second series, "Above Zero" (2009), the images already show the consequences of industrial growth in western societies quite plainly - new streams and rivers spring from Greenland’s sooted snowscape and dig deep trenches into the ice.
In his recent work, "Reading the Landscape" (2014), Olaf Otto Becker goes one step further, he takes the viewer from the unaffected primeval forests of Malaysia and Indon...
With his new project Olaf Otto Becker is distancing himself from his former field of attention. He is leaving behind the icebergs, glaciers and snowmelt rivers, turning towards the earths’ forests. The comprehensive project Reading the Landscape consists of three chapters and depicts the characteristics of three specific habitats. Untouched biotopes in Malaysia, Indonesia and North America are captured in all their glory.
© Olaf Otto Becker
Becker is showing us lush, green landscapes and rivers – photographs of ideal places, meeting our expectation of exotic rainforests. An assumption that is to be destroyed in the projects’ second chapter, in which Becker uncovers the consequences of industrial clearing. The last chapter of Reading the Landscape can be read as an imagined return to the...
En trois décennies, cette manifestation a accueilli les plus grands noms de la photographie, Depardon comme Doisneau, Gina Lollobrigida et Edouard Boubat, Lucien Clergue ou Komaro Hoshino, Roland et Sabrina Michaud ou, voilà deux ans encore, Willy Ronis. Elle est devenue la plus importante du grand est de la France et une des plus originales du genre puisque les organisateurs obligent les photographes et autres créateurs d’images à plancher sur un seul thème. Il y eut celui de la femme (bien sûr !) des péchés capitaux ou (en 2008) de la rue. Voici cette année 1336 œuvres diverses ayant pour point commun les quatre éléments (ou l’un d’eux). La terre, l’eau, le feu ...
Munich-based photographer Robert Voit has discovered a new kind of tree that is sprouting up all over the world: the cellular phone antenna tree, made from steel, fiberglass and plastic, molded to resemble a real tree, and clad with fake branches and leaves. Dubbing these weird sore thumbs “new trees,” Voit has found all kinds of specimens--pine, palm, cypress, cactus--throughout the world, in deserts or in the middle of newly planted forests, in fields and parking lots, next to highways or in housing developments. The artificiality of these “new trees” readily declares itself--they are necessarily taller than most trees, their antennae are often visible through the leaves, or the trunks may be marked with warnings to keep away--and even without these clues they stick out from their surroundings a...
Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker (born in Travemünde, Germany in 1959) turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker's spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome large-format camera. His photo studies draw out the overwhelming beauty of this icy landscape, while documenting their present fragility: dust and rust in the air form black, crusty deposits, which, in conjunction with global warming, accelerate the melting of the ice sheets--with what will probably be inevitable, catastrophic results. Becker wa...
Galerie f5,6 is proud to announce an exhibition with internationally renowned German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959, Travemünde, Germany). The works are from his new series Broken Line, (published by Hatje Cantz). This publication was awarded with the German Photo book prize 2008.
Between 2003 and 2006 Olaf Otto Becker travelled almost 4000 km along the West Coast of Greenland on his own, in a small dingy. The sole purpose of his trip was to portray this coastal region with his 8 x 10 inch large format camera. Olaf Otto Becker reached the 75th Northern degree latitude of Melville Bay in his little boat. Similar to a 19th Century painter Becker portrayed the landscape, accentuating its silence, melancholy and the sublime of a land known only to few. Similar to an explorer, Becker's work is pervade...