Absage An Die Wirklichkeit: Subjective Positions of Contemporary Photography by Andreas Steffens, Michael Neumann, Oliver Giesler (Hardcover, 2006) for sale online

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This title features a preface by Tim Kellner, Knut Wolfgang Maron and Michael Strauss. 'I take photographs so that the things that lie behind can become visible'. This statement from Knut Wolfgang Maron describes this selection of photographic works in the search for a new subjectivity in photography. With reference to the tradition of classical subjective photography, this new development is defined as 'extended subjective photography'. Photographic reflection is achieved through the use of specific associations and metaphors that act together to create the 'lowest common denominator' of understanding between art and the viewer. There are symbols all around us; we apply them to our work to create new - and relevant - interrelations. Our focus is not to produce an appropriate representation of reality; instead we superimpose and permeate reality with symbols and allegories in order to communicate our own state of mind.