This website is a presentation platform for photography + photographics and other visual stuff of Christian Wagner and various sympathizers of boa73 with similar intentions in the field of visual conception. In the course of time the visual content of this site should grow and more sympathizers should leave their marks on this website.

Whereas the visual traces of various artists and sympathizers, formally known as third party content, are collected in the friendly alien area.

The perception of our well known world around us and the construction of reality or better - the perceived reality, is varing with the various individuals. One of my favorite intention making photos is seeking the unknown in the seemingly well known. Alienated abstraction of daily perception. Thus I try to pursue photography as a kind of painting, establishing the retouching on a par with taking the photo, to give the photos the emotive touch suggesting my impression of the scenery to viewers.

The concentration on abstraction techniques leads me to photographics. Abstract photography in combination with overpainting became one of my central interest for a while. In this period the idea of the rhythmus edition was realised.

Whatever I tried in this field, I always strived to be a little unconventional - but only a little ;)

FUTURE GOALS

In conclusion, my past works are mainly motivated by aesthetic aspects.

Inspired by the book "land without a self" and other influencial austrain authors I came to the point that it could be interesting to spend more time dealing with the contemporary culture of the world around us. So I started a collection named "Reminisence" which is about my perception of Austrian lifestyle and its pervasion by the laws of tradition involving rural influences and artefacts.

TECHNICAL STUFF

ANALOGUE + DIGITAL
WITH A CLEAR CUT PREFERENCE TO REFLEX CAMERAS

Here is a small collections of links and books, i would like to recommend. Different genres - different stuff

LUMAS ‌ PHOTO ART EDITIONS www.lumas.de
COMMENT > A photo art distributor

WOLFGANG FUCHS ‌ ////////////// turntabling.firstfloor.org
COMMENT > something unconvential for your ears

MEINE KLEINE STADT ‌ PHOTO BLOG mks.antville.org
COMMENT > nice web blog about cities around the world

> IMAGE:/IMAGES ‌ POSITIONEN ZUR ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN FOTOGRAFIE
Tamara Horakova, Ewald Maurer, Johanna Hofleitner, Ruth Maurer-Horak (Hg.)
2002 Passagen Verlag
COMMENT > my favorite theoretical book on contemporary photography with a broad scope

> THE AMERICANS
ROBERT FRANK
2000 Scalo Verlag
COMMENT > a sequence of photos, painting a dense scenery of america in the fifties. - exposures full of metaphors

> FIGURES AND PLACES ‌ AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE VON 1978 BIS 2000
JEFF WALL
2001 Prestel Verlag
COMMENT > "cinematography" in a static way with a distinctive narrative character. staged sceneries.

> CATALOUGE OF EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY FOUNDATION CARTIER POUR LÁRT CONTEMPORAIN
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
2002 Thames and Hudson
COMMENT > nice usage of color saturation to emphazise an adequate atmosphere of the exposures.

> 2 ¼
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
1999 Twin Palms Publishers

> UNDERSTANDING YOSHUA
CHARLIE WHITE
2001 Goliath Verlag
COMMENT > Surrealistic - that is what it is.

> DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS ‌ PHOTOGRAPHS BY A NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER
DAVID BRADFORD
2000 Könemann Verlag
COMMENT > I have been striving for a long time to find a photo book about Gotham which reflects my impressions of this city - raw and cool.

> THE PHOTOBOOK: A HISTORY VOLUME 1
MARTIN PARR & GERRY BADGER
2000 Könemann Verlag
COMMENT > For all the things we would like to have in our own bookshelfs.