Elina Brotherus, 2005
Publication
Hard cover
Foreword: Karola Kraus, Rainer Fuchs
Texts by: Sussanna Pettersson, Andrea Holzherr, Sheyi Antony Bankale, Elina Brotherus
Publisher: Next Level and Creative Scape
ISBN: 978-0954600815
Graphic design: Tammy Malkov
Dimensions: 23.6 x 27.3 cm
Language: English
80 pages
€ 50
“The colours of a photographic print are not given; the “correct” answer is not hidden in the negative. It is surprise how much can be done in the darkroom. Chosen the colour of the sky can be just as arbitrary as choosing among pigments of oil paint. This came like a revelation to me when working on the The New Painting. All there is, is a vague impression of “how it was” on the location, and a choice that has to be made by the artist when printing. This is why I have started to take notes, in the spirit of Bonnard, in order to remember what things looked like.
Photography, unlike painting, has a direct link to the reality. This is both its enchantment and its curse. People tend to treat photographs as documents: who is this person, or where is that place? I would prefer that we pay more attention, not only to the subject matter itself, but to how it is shown: what visual choices has the artist made, how has he/she solved certain problems, what is the structure of the image, the mood of it, how are the colours tuned? How does it affect us as viewers?”
Elina Brotherus