Claus goedicke biography definition
Claus Goedicke's photographs range between still life and object photography..
Photographic series by Claus Goedicke
"Classical still-life painting has taught us to inquire into meaning behind the objects depicted.
Goedicke's work pays tribute to visual traditions of painting and photography.
(...) In the modern era this aspect has lost importance. The still life has increasingly come to serve as a means for investigating aesthetic issues, such as the relationship of space to plane, of form to colour. Claus Goedicke’s work stands in this modern tradition.
Oscillating between object photography and still life, he succeeds in combining the means of the photographic medium with the possibilities of the painterly composition, as well as in translating the types of imagery found in advertising into his own, unique visual idiom.
Using the means of colour photography, he invastigates the relationship of forms to plane and space, of line to volume, of image to reflection, of light to shade, as well as the great potentials contained in colour combinations, contrasts and harmonies."
Kurt von Figura, Franz Joseph van der Grinten: Preface, i
