Historical photographs of the Salzkammergut are reinterpreted by contemporary photo artists – between lived tradition and cliché
Curator: Yvonne Oswald
Historical photographers: Michael Moser, Wilhelm Burger, Friedrich Simony, Erich Bährendt, Albert Rastl, Konrad Mautner, Friedrich Ernst Brandt, Alois Eisenwenger, Hans Gilge, Victor Angerer u.a.
Historical photographs of the Salzkammergut from private and public archives are made available to contemporary photographic artists. These artists comment on and interpret the classic images, thus creating a link between tradition and cliché and contemporary photographic art. In doing so, it is not only a matter of works from a variety of archives (e.g. Trautenfels/Johanneum); the inhabitants of the Salzkammergut region will also be asked to make private historical photos available.
The historical motifs presented are intended to serve international artists as inspiration for the current era to work with the Salzkammergut region of today in photographic-artistic form as a geopolitical space. Photography will be used as an artistic means of expression to create new interpretative, sociocritical, comparative or ideological-political works with an eye on the historical motifs.
Photography is used as a means of artistic expression to recreate interpretative, socio-critical, comparative or ideological-political works with a view to the historical motifs. Special attention is paid to the works’ relation to the region and its inhabitants.
