Perspective – Detail – Reinterpretation
Photography can sharpen the eye for seemingly trivial things. The pictures submitted over the last fifty years show that young photographers have always been on the lookout for unusual perspectives on their photographic forays.
Pictures particularly from the early phase of the competition impress by their objective focus on architecture and spatial structure. Marked by formal thought and minimalistic abstraction of the motif, they work out the linear and geometric character of contemporary architecture. In later years numerous interior shots, empty of people, portraying rooms as if they were faces are among the award-winning photos. Another means of reinterpreting the objective is in choosing the detail and separating the object from its environment.
Since the 1980s there are more and more girls and boys, above all from the youngest age group, who demonstrate their love of experimenting by means of photography. Their inversion of the usual viewpoint, suspension of fixed proportions, arrangement of objects and creation of visual analogies between two motifs that don’t normally fit together question our normal habits of perception.
Through deliberate manipulation the young photographers show us that photography can only have a fragmentary character. At the same time they call upon us to always take a second look.
