„If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.“
Ein bekannter niederländischer Architekt, Rem Koolhaas, hat mal gesagt „If less is more maybe nothing is everything.“ Soweit muss man ja vielleicht nicht gehen, gleich die Kamera auslassen oder die Website abschalten. Nachvollziehbar finde ich aber den Gedanken, dass gerade der Reiz darin liegen kann, aus vermeintlich Wenig ganz viel Wirkung zu erzielen – minimalismus!
Bildausschnitt, Farben, Formen und Kontraste richtig gewählt, können aus unscheinbaren Dingen wunderbare Motive entstehen. In dieser Rubrik finden Sie Aufnahmen, die durch die Reduktion des Bildausschnitts eine Abstraktion erfahren haben. Bei manchem Motiv ist es – zumindest auf den ersten Blick – schwierig zu erkennen, was man denn da vor Augen hat. Durch diese Reduktion bekommen dann die Dinge aus unserer Umwelt eine neue, eigenständige Wirkung, wenigstens als Bildmotiv. Minimalismus!
A well-known Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas, once said „If less is more maybe nothing is everything.“ But, you don’t have to go so far leaving out the camera or switch off the website. But I understand the idea of creating a great effect of seemingly little things. When cuts, shapes, colors and contrasts are of the right choice, wonderful things with great effects can be created. In this category you can find pictures, sometimes you can’t tell what it is that it is showing, at least at the first view. By reducing the content or cropping the picture frame things of our environment getting a new, independent meaning, at least as a motive of a photograph.

A well-known Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas, once said "If less is more maybe nothing is everything." But, you don't have to go so far leaving out the camera or switch off the website. But I understand the idea of creating a great effect of seemingly little things. When cuts, shapes, colors and contrasts are of the right choice, wonderful things with great effects can be created.

Because I was not sure if my photographs belong to the genre of architectural photography, I had to study its defintion. At Wikipedia one can read that this term includes everything what is a photographic representation of architecture. But then if you continue reading, this definition is meant more restrictively, that the documentation of architecture is essential in architectural photography. Architectural photography is not to create own aspects. Hmmm, this is still not satisfactory. More interesting is the definition of the term architecture itself. Accordingly, architecture is "the art and / or science of well-planned design of the human built space, ie the confrontation with the human-made space and in particular the interrelationship between human, (human-made) space and time." That comes closer to my understanding of architecture photography. I understand my photographs less documentarily and more as an attempt by taking pictures of the human-made space to create my subjective personal view. By this and my very personal perspective I create something new that is more than just documentation. But the answer to the question, whether it is architectural photography or not, everybody should give himself.