Thursday, August 5, 2010

Andrea Huerta Florian Maier-Aichen


Florian Maier-Aichen is a contemporary photographer that was born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany. He earned an MFA from the University of California in Los Angeles after studying at various universities in Europe. His work has been included in major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial in 226, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2007 and at Museo Thyssen-Bornmisza in Madrid, Spain in 2008. His work is not about documentation but rather about fiction and drawing techniques.


A photograph that I am drawn to is " Salton Seas (1) from 2008. I am inspired by Florian Maier-Aichen's photography because he achieves photography that are mysterious by using cameras that create accidental light leaks and double expousures. He also uses the computer to add more imperfections and images to create photographs that are incorrect but make us believe that they can exist. He uses aerial photography in this photograph and creates a sort of alien landscape that is mysterious and sort of scary. His work speaks to me because I am using light leaks and double exposures. I would also like to introduce computer manipulation to my photographs to make them even more mysterious a he does. He works with old photographic process but brings it to the present by using contemporay techniques.



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