SELFPORTRAIT 2010 

SELFPORTRAIT IN 
BROKEN MIRROR 2009

   

We only see what we know – Goethe 

PAUL SCHINDLER
1953 VIENNA

The power of photography is based on the calmness of reality.

It plays with the appearance of objectivity. Photographs are not more real than other information media but we believe more in the photographs. This suggestive power is what I use in my work: Photography as the illusion of reality.

The observer is animated to prove his/her perception. It raises the question: What is reality made of to look like that? I do not deliver a context to the object as the perception itself demands deduction and speculation. Not the view of new things is put in the foreground,
but the extended perception itself. It is an adventure and a step in a new reality.

I was educated in photography at the Höheren Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Dept. Photography, by Professor Hartmann. In the 80ies I participated in some group exhibitions (awarded by Creditanstalt Bankverein).

The existing prints are available in digital form and are adjusted only in luminosity and contrast. The work shows surfaces of special industry products made in series and altered through individual, accidental, mechanical, chemical and biological processes.