René Groebli, Color Work, 2018
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René Groebli: Color Work: 70 CHF I SIGNED
Publisher: Sturm & Drang
Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 978-3-906822-06-8
Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 978-3-906822-06-8
CHF 70.00
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After his wonderful poetic and capturing black and white photography, color became for René Groebli the actual major topic, the challenge that had to be faced and overcome technically and aesthetically, but also mentally starting in the mid 50's. In the end to see color is somehow different from seeing black and white.
A photographer cannot just switch from black and white to color. What René Groebli was striving for was a "sizeable repertoire of technical possibilities" in order to use it to invent images, magical images, symbolic images. Documentary photographs, of whatever type, were not in demand. Medication packages could very well be photographed by others. What interested René Groebli were metaphorical images that let one see behind the facade, to present in principle the not visible. In this Groebli saw himself as service provider, as commissioned photographer. But also as artist who mobilized his fantasy, his creative potential to steer entrepreneurial communication in a new, fresh, interest-arousing direction.
Texts by Hans-Michael Koetzle.
©Photographs René Groebli
