トーマス・ルフ「JPEGシリーズと過去の重要な作品について」 — Transcript

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1. 0:00one thing Ben beer once said to me was
2. 0:04if you use photography you should always
3. 0:07reflect the
4. 0:08media
5. 0:10and if the image um and this reflection
6. 0:14should be represented in in the
7. 0:17photograph when I then continued working
8. 0:21at the Art Academy I had the idea of
9. 0:23taking photographs of my friends and
10. 0:25colleagues there and I also yes I wanted
11. 0:29to do that in a
12. 0:30very or quite objective and Sak style
13. 0:35yeah I wanted to make 100 portraits to
14. 0:38show to some aliens how humankind looks
15. 0:44like but people were pointing to the
16. 0:48port and say saying oh that's that's a
17. 0:51nice photo of Petra that's a nice uh oh
18. 0:54that's hind that's Peter and I always
19. 0:57had to tell them no that's not SS that's
20. 1:00not P that's not uh Pia that's a
21. 1:03photograph of them so I had to realize
22. 1:08that people look through the photograph
23. 1:10and they did not get that they are
24. 1:12looking at a photograph but they ignor
25. 1:14the medium thinking they are
26. 1:17looking uh into
27. 1:20reality and it's not exactly because of
28. 1:25this but um in 1986 I decided to do the
29. 1:30portraits in a very big size the biggest
30. 1:32size that was available from um yeah the
31. 1:35Kodak
32. 1:36paper which is 1 M
33. 1:3980
34. 1:41and that help really helped a lot
35. 1:44because now
36. 1:45people did not no more said oh that's
37. 1:50Petra they said oh this is a big
38. 1:52photograph of Petra so it was the first
39. 1:55time they realized that they are looking
40. 1:57at a photograph I think with a big
41. 2:01format started the Emancipation
42. 2:05emancipation of Photography in
43. 2:08Contemporary Art because uh those
44. 2:11photographs they had such a physical
45. 2:14presence and they delivered a pictorial
46. 2:19pictorial quality that yeah a painting
47. 2:23cannot
48. 2:25offer my belief in in photography
49. 2:29capturing
50. 2:30reality um I realized that maybe that's
51. 2:34that's not all of the truth I think the
52. 2:38camera is just a machine and of course
53. 2:41it records reality but it's records the
54. 2:44the
55. 2:45reality the person behind the camera
56. 2:48wants to
57. 2:49point and
58. 2:51so I think even the most objective photo
59. 2:54photograph is subject photography and I
60. 2:58was a bit bored of art photography and I
61. 3:02was thinking of what what is the most
62. 3:04objective photogra photography what
63. 3:06could that be and I I was always very
64. 3:09interested in
65. 3:10scientific or medical
66. 3:14photographs
67. 3:15and I then thought the most objective
68. 3:19photography must be stop photography
69. 3:23because
70. 3:25here me as an author I cannot manipulate
71. 3:29anything
72. 3:30because those things are so far away I
73. 3:32cannot arrange them I can only Rec
74. 3:35record
75. 3:36them but at the same time I had to
76. 3:39realize that even though I'm
77. 3:42professionally educated and I had a
78. 3:44quite professional equipment I wasn't
79. 3:46able to take these
80. 3:48photographs with all the light and uh
81. 3:51air
82. 3:52pollution this wouldn't work would be
83. 3:55very very bad
84. 3:57quality so
85. 4:00in with the star photographs it was the
86. 4:03first time that I had to say or give up
87. 4:09authorship and I had to give it up
88. 4:11because I just wasn't able to yeah take
89. 4:14the photograph by myself you probably
90. 4:16already saw that I'm much interested in
91. 4:20structure the
92. 4:22distribution I continued that with my
93. 4:25serious jpex I had the idea doing the
94. 4:28jpex when I was download loing images
95. 4:30from the internet
96. 4:32I sometimes
97. 4:34saw
98. 4:36beautiful small details in images that I
99. 4:40downloaded and in the very beginning I
100. 4:42did not know how that happened until I
101. 4:45realized this is the structure of the
102. 4:47compression you can
103. 4:49choose uh the degree of
104. 4:53compression and then you get this kind
105. 4:55of artifact in the images
106. 4:59so what I had to do is looking for
107. 5:03attractive images then I calculated them
108. 5:05down into a size of about 18
109. 5:08180k and then I compressed them in the
110. 5:11worst
111. 5:12quality and one of the first images that
112. 5:15I worked on was um a photograph of um
113. 5:20September 11th
114. 5:222001 uh I was here in New York in at
115. 5:26that day and I was uh down on Canal
116. 5:29Street
117. 5:30and I saw the two towers
118. 5:32collapsing and I had my camera with me a
119. 5:35small camera and I took yeah stupidly
120. 5:38enough I
121. 5:39took a photograph or took photographs
122. 5:43and when I came back to Germany to dled
123. 5:46off um there was nothing on the
124. 5:49film and I don't know until now whether
125. 5:52it was just the battery or whether it's
126. 5:55maybe it's the the X-ray so I I really
127. 5:58started searching for for images like
128. 6:00crazy in the internet and yeah I found a
129. 6:03lot of those
130. 6:04images and then I realized that the
131. 6:07internet um is a
132. 6:11incredible uh source for Distributing
133. 6:15images I my idea then was to use this
134. 6:19kind of compression as the
135. 6:23representation
136. 6:25represent of images in the
137. 6:28internet uh I print them in a quite big
138. 6:33size because the the nice thing is um so
139. 6:37this work is also about perception if
140. 6:39you look at the these photographs from a
141. 6:42very from a far away side um side like
142. 6:46about 10 or 15 M you think you're
143. 6:49looking at a a real photograph and then
144. 6:52if you come close to the image starts at
145. 6:55about 5 m you recognize the artifact
146. 6:58this 8 by
147. 7:00eight uh pixel structure which makes the
148. 7:04image very paintly even though it's
149. 7:07stupid
150. 7:08to use the word painting in uh terms of
151. 7:12pixel