Expanding Moments 2 - Limited Edition of 10 Photograph

Expanding Moment Looking at the picture today, with climate change in mind and other global threats, its sulfur yellow color seems like the moment when the apocalypse began. The strange gradations in the shades I achieved by massive over exposure of a slide film and the following manipulation during the scan. The exposure time of this series was usually between 10 and 15 seconds. This gave me a differentiation between the moved and the unmoved. It is printed with pigment ink in gallery quality on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308. What is the moment? Does it even exist? By Dr. Leonhard Tomczyk, Spessart Museum, Lohr a. Main This question was already tried in ancient times to answer. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said (520-460 BC): Time is a flowing stream and you can not go twice in the same stream. If you set the time, he was already over. Even today many of us are still dealing with this phenomenon, including Thomas Kohnle. With a 6x9 medium format camera with yellow and gray filters, he has made an attempt to come a little closer to solving this supposedly unsolvable problem by capturing time expansions. The moment is the unmoved. The passage of time is made visible by the movement, or rather by the differentiability of the movement. The movement is an expression of a passage of time, in a sense, but also of an aging process. The moving elements, such as human bodies, umbrellas and garments, are in turn an expression of this transience, of what has just been done and already in the stream of time. The play of stasis and movement lends the captured scenes their own liveliness, which is expressed differently in each picture. What in a picture is the color splendor of nature reduced to two basic shades, is in the other picture the water of the sea, which seems to swallow not only the reflections but also the time. However, the phenomenon of the changing visual perception of the moving elements or time sequences depicted on the pictures deserves particular attention when looking at the pictures by Thomas Kohnle, as the distance to them changes. Viewed from motion, they are given a new dimension, which, in reducing the distance, dissolves into dissolution, which, as it seems, also makes possible a real perception of temporal transience or expansion. I would like to forego further explanations at this point, because what stands in the foreground of almost all pictures of Thomas Kohnle is certainly not the examination of the laws of the natural sciences by means of a camera, but above all the inspiration, and the viewer is asked, and to invited to make their own experience through direct contact with these works, to experience the passage of time, the extension of the moment.

Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10

Size:70.9 W x 42.5 H x 0 D in

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