Double photo to explore our shifting concept of liberty. I made the photo left from helicopter in 1983, the photo right two weeks ago (25 March 2021) in the war museum at Bastogne (BE), the statue of liberty as the strong symbol for liberty depicted on the hood of an East German Trabant car, to celebrate the fall of the iron curtain in November 1989. In 1989 liberty was in it's heydays, it couldn't become more popular than in 1989. But in the following decades, an erosion started to kick in......
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.... behind a fence. Nevertheless it's freedom (in 2D). This image depicts the complex concept of liberty for nature and for the next generation. Is this type of (2D) liberty truly free enough?
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This is of course a photo construct. With some lines, an artificial space was made and an observer was put in front of it. The huge photo on the wall is one of my reflections made last month from the moat of the Nijenhuis castle in Heino (NL) and published on my Flickr Photostream. To display some photos in oversize is probably the dream of many photographers, but showing huge prints is, for most of us, just a dream.
I remember the great exhibition of Andreas Gursky in the Hayward Gallery in London UK in early 2018. Huge prints all over, fantastic. The transportation of his huge photos must have been a logistic challenge, but that was worth the effort in my opinion. Nevertheless, technology is on our, the dreamers, side: huge high-resolution screens could already be afforded by some galleries today. On such screens, still-photographs showing enormous detail can already be shown. This requires a thoughtful approach, because the temptation will be to show many photos in slide sequences, which is certainly not what I mean here. The power of photography is, in my view, that the image is lasting and that only the observer will determine how long he/she will look at it. Imagine a gallery that would have a few of such HR-screens, in supplement of real prints in various sizes. That is my dream, and with large screen technology advancing, it may one day become within reach. Who could live without dreams?
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A modification of the vicious verb that it is labor that makes us free.
After the fall of three letters, it appears to be Art that does the job. Leica M9 on 13 August 2021 in Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke - Belgium. Lens is the M-Summicron f2 35mm-asph.
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