Things, their utilisation, their appearance and their financial and symbolic value speak volumes about our relationship with the world. The path through the 20th century leads from the actual things to the immaterial image of things, from the design of objects via their production, the use to which they are put in everyday life and our imagination, right up to their degeneration into trash.
Achille B. Weider: Modeaufnahme, um 1970.
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur.
© Achille B. Weider, Zürich
This project is concerned with precisely this kind of photography, photography commissioned by designers, manufacturers and advertising agencies – pictures known as object, or product, photographs. A group of twenty researchers have persued different archives in European and American states in order to find previously undiscovered examples of applied photography on the theme. Parallel to these photographs, the exhibition shows work by photographers including Bernard Eilers, Menno Huizinga, Hans Dukkers, Anuschka Blommers / Niels Schumm, Frank van der Salm, Cok de Graaff, Eugene Atget, Edward Steichen, Hans Finsler, Anton Stankowski, Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, Man Ray, André Kertész, Hans Bellmer, Duane Michals, William Wegman, Fischli Weiss, Louise Lawler, Christopher Williams and John Gossage. The aim of the exhibition and book project "The Ecstasy of Things" is to cast a retrospective glance, reflected by the medium of photography, back over the century of things from today's standpoint. On the one hand, the project describes and explores the economic, technological, ecological, cultural and emotional content of things, on the other it discusses their appearance and steps in the development of their photographic portrayal. In each and every stage of development – the creation, presentation, selection, production, marketing and sale of things – photography is used as a central means of communication. See for a review ...
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