Peter Franck
postcards from heaven, the peace series, 2019
In general: Today, pictures are statues of our everyday life. Animated by the phenomenon of social Media, photographs are produced in unprecedented quantities. Any action,Grimace and the daily purchase are photographed. The meaning of Single shot, however, disappears. Photography has always been a medium which was bound to technical progress. But possibilities also mean equally a duty or are they self-purpose? At the beginning of the photograph stood the moment the light and the motive. Photos were precious, rare and forever. The decline of the analog, then the advent of digital photography is more than a change from silver nitrate to pixels. Also our viewing habits and the values have changed. This is exactly the moment and the situation in which I try to fit into this process. For about 2 years, I work almost exclusively with archived images. The found pictures ( from the archive of the Visual Studies work shop in Rochester, New York and from digital image archives like the Libary of Congress ) serve as a foundation for new stories, so they do not hurt any privacy, but play with the look and feel of former times. The projections of our time in the context of our art history are based on the time of our fathers and grandfathers. This was the flowering season . The high times of Kodak and the images try to take this time into our time and fill this "primer"with new content. Visual habits and techniques are interwoven with each other ( from photographer to photographer, from analog to digital), creating a picture of „time" or time warps and show that..somethingsneverchange Series: The series "postcards from heaven" shows landscapes. A face of the earth we send home to show how beautiful our planet is. What we see is landscape. Landscape seen through our glasses of our cultural socialization. Beauty through the filter of our education and origin. A stage for stories to happen. First, you see the picture and perceive it as a postcard. hen it turns out that these landscapes show gaps, sometimes more, sometimes less. . These breaks represent our approach to nature, our relationship to creation. The face of the earth with folds, wrinkles, displacements and phenomenons.
