Reiner Leist
dal 6/9/2006 al 6/1/2007
Segnalato da
6/9/2006
Reiner Leist
Museum fur Fotografie, Berlin
For more than ten years, Reiner Leist has been taking pictures of metropolitan life through the window of his New York office building on 8th Avenue, using his 19th century full plate camera. He took pictures each day he was in New York, whenever he found the time, at every time of day, in all weathers and every position of the sun.
Window
For more than ten years, Reiner Leist has been taking pictures of metropolitan life
through the window of his New York office building on 8th Avenue, using his 19th
century full plate camera. He took pictures each day he was in New York, whenever he
found the time, at every time of day, in all weathers and every position of the sun.
The resulting bulk of around 2,200 photographs documents both the every-day life and
change of Manhattan and the world-historic event of the destruction of the World
Trade Center. The ever-changing view through the office window onto the city lends
the images a rich diversity which keeps inviting fresh comparisons.
For his exhibition in the Kaisersaal at the Museum fur Fotografie (Museum for
Photography), Leist has developed a large installation with illuminated boxes. These
present the entirety of his photographs in a giant panorama. The arrangement of the
boxes displays the course of a year while at the same time allowing comparison
between a certain day of a certain month in different years within the period 1995
to 2005.
Opening: Thurs Sept 7, 2006, 7 pm
Museum for Photography / Museum fur Fotografie
Jebensstr. 2 - Berlin
Opening hours: Tues-Sun 10 am - 6 pm, Thu 10 am - 10 pm