Fotostiftung Schweiz takes charge of Hans Danuser’s photographic archives
Press release, 22nd of May 2024
fss. The renowned Swiss artist and photographer Hans Danuser, who has a studio in Zurich, is donating his archives to Fotostiftung Schweiz. Danuser is among those who paved the way for a new conceptual approach, combining aesthetics, science and urgent contemporary issues. Like Balthasar Burkhard’s archives, which were acquired in 2022, Hans Danuser’s oeuvre is essentially devoted to photography, but is also firmly established in the broader context of contemporary art. In close collaboration with the artist, Fotostiftung Schweiz has now developed a concept for the gradual transfer and long-term maintenance of his archives....
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From Painting to Photography and Object
Lynn Kost
Prior to the invention of photography, we used to think primarily of paintings when it came to pictures. They were utilized for representation and visual narration, compressing time onto the canvas. Events and story lines are depicted side-by-side, overlapping, and taking on an abstract form.1 Photography put an abrupt end to the long reign of this traditional conception of the image.
It introduced the present tense into visual tradition and eclipsed the past tense of painting. In a subtractive process, photography selects from a current situation and creates an image of a reality. At both a narrative and an objective level, photography shifts the focus to the presence, immediacy, authenticity, and reality of the moment.....
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