Two of my favorite artists out there have a couple of things in common: they are Germans, female and named Uta. Director of Photography: Uta Briesewitz & Photographer: Uta Barth
You may be familiar with some of German born, Uta Briesewitz's work-- she shot many episodes of the television show "The Wire" including the Hamsterdam episode. Her genius can also be witnessed in Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story. I wasn't a big fan of the movie but it was hard to ignore the production values. Check out this scene (you can watch with the volume off):
Photographer Uta Barth is also of German stock. Her photographs explore depths of field and focus. I love the uncanny feeling her images evoke of past memories with a reinterpretation of memory that is a less literal, blurry take and involving place rather than a specific event. See below for some of my favorite pieces from her body of work:
Field #9, 1995, color photograph on panel, 23 x 28.75 inches
Field #23
Ground #9
You may be familiar with some of German born, Uta Briesewitz's work-- she shot many episodes of the television show "The Wire" including the Hamsterdam episode. Her genius can also be witnessed in Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story. I wasn't a big fan of the movie but it was hard to ignore the production values. Check out this scene (you can watch with the volume off):
Field #23
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