Posts tagged Awareness

Jill Magid, The Kosinski Quotes: My Sensitivity, Silkscreen on Rives BKF paper [the system is based on the secret service practice of highlighting text to be erased, and my own personal system of marking]

Jill Magid, The Kosinski Quotes: My Sensitivity, Silkscreen on Rives BKF paper

[the system is based on the secret service practice of highlighting text to be erased, and my own personal system of marking]

“Only pictures that have been taken without the awareness of those represented document a found situation at the same time as they present a monologue. Heinrich Riebesehl chose this method for his series “Menschen im Fahrstuhl” (engl.: “People in a Elevator”), which he completed in just one day. In a moment of pause people can reflect and are not forced to react to being observed. In his pictures the photographer respects their individuality without judging social differences.” [more here]

Heinrich Riebesehl, People in the Elevator, 11-20-1969, 1969