Still 3 - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Photograph

"You press the button - we do the rest" was the slogan of the legendary camera "Kodak box". Built as a marketing tool for the Kodak roll film the journey went from color negative films, slide films Ektachrome, the Kodak E-6 processing principle up to 1987 the world's first produced digital SLR. Digital archived individual works that were found during the research on this topic (Research Kodak) served as a basis for the illustrated photographic collages. Kodak material from their heydays transferred into the digital world.A game between analog and digital, one-time jump which creates of a new surreal world and generates a look into a new reality. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he was five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed until his death in 1917. Smillie’s duties included documenting important events and research trips, photographing the museum’s installations and specimens, and creating reproductions for use as printing illustrations. He also served as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie’s documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution’s art and artifacts and also serves as a visual history of the Institution. The majority of these photographs are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. In 2015 Peter Franck, born in Ueberlingen on Lake Constance in Germany, discovered the Smithsonian Institution Archives as part of a research about the Kodak company, Peter Franck has been dealing for years with the genre of “Sill live” and saw in the images of Thomas William Smillie the possibility to fill it with new content and to transfer the analog age to the digital world. The originally images were intended as documentation about the museum. As inventory. In this inventory lies already the germ that opened in the year 2015. New relationships were established and the images now telling stories that were hidden in the pictures. So these still lifes are an co-production over a period of 125 years away and what was intended as an archive photo became the independent work of art.