News von Athena Verlag | 12-05-2005
(u-s:b /Athena Verlag) Why does almost everyone wear a watch on his wrist when the time is displayed almost every-where around us? Do we use a wristwatch to tell others something about us? Whether we want it or not, our watch says something about us. It forms a sort of visual sign on our wrist. It is the shape, the material, the colour, the typography ... Are wristwatches something like miniature icons which we carry around with us to help those opposite us to categorise us, do they express our position in society or to society? It is not quite as simple as that! We humans are more complex. Every person has an individual affinity with his wristwatch. The technical side is important to some people, other people hope that the brand-name image will be transferred to themselves, others again like the fashionable aspect – or the watch is quite simply an expression of family remembrance ...
The interviews which the photographer Ralf Baumgarten carried out with those he portrayed are the source of the accompanying text, and these give a little of their subjective affinity away. 50 people of different ages and different professions were visited or came to see the photographer. All the motives were taken with a medium-format camera outside in daylight. With one exception, the owners all held their watches in their hand, effectively presenting them to the observer. The portrait pairs of people and watches confronting each other tell us a little about these people – without words. Watches and people are brought closely together. This allows us to let both have an effect on us. What do we become aware of? Which images and feelings come to our minds? What do the „WatchMen“ tell us?
ISBN 3-89896-222-9, Engl. Broschur, 29,50 Euro
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