Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Great Photojournalism about a time of change
I came across this amazing set of images and feel obligated to share them with the Buffet world at large. Because proximity and association, photojournalism has been an object of awareness and fascination for the very vast majority of my life. It was a trade of my father's and in our household folks like W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, and Elliot Erwitt were held in status and esteem the same way that folks regard saints or rockstars. We would track the rise of local heroes in the field such as David Hume Kennerly or Brian Lanker.
I felt a desire, an obligation, even, to give full buffet exposure to Karlheinz Jardner when I recently encountered his work. Jardner, a West German, went to the island of Rügen with visions of Caspar David Friedrich's white cliff paintings in Spring 1990 within the year of the fall of East Germany.
Here is an article about his journey and most importantly, here is a collection of 45 images that document a world, now lost, transitioning into the west. The pictures of bedrooms and shop windows are especially defining and descriptive. And finally, there are images of the ostensible object of his journey, the White Cliffs.
These images are impressive for both their historical and aesthetic value. It is hard to believe that twenty years have passed.
Cliff Hotel Rugen, 1990.
posted by well-executed buffet at 1:28 PM
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