Work group V · 7 works
Quiet Passages
Street photography in places of waiting, walking and passing by
“Stille Passagen” (Quiet Passages) brings together Olli Boehm’s street photography: pictures of places where people wait, pass through or go by. Waiting halls, glass facades, rain-soaked streets and a billboard in Bucharest are stages on which people appear small, turned away and often only as shadows.
The group connects to “Urbane Bewegungen” (Urban Movements) but differs in its material: here photography takes center stage, without colored overpainting. Strict composition, backlight and deliberate blur give the pictures their calm.
Waiting
Walking and Seeing
Curatorial Perspective
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Description
Seven photographs, mostly in black and white: two hall pictures from Buchloe, a man at a glass facade, three works with people walking in the rain and against the light, and a billboard in Bucharest.
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Idea
The group shows urban space as a place of passage. People are traces within it: they wait, walk, disappear. Boehm is interested in what remains of them when they are not portrayed.
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Context
The pictures move between street photography and architectural photography, in the orbit of Lee Friedlander, Saul Leiter and Daido Moriyama. The Bucharest billboard links the group to Pop Art’s critique of advertising.
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What sets it apart
“Buchloe, Hall” and “Buchloe, Station” form a pair, as do “The Walker” and “Two Walkers.” As a photographic montage, “Bucharest” bridges to the Typo-girls of the group “Fragile Identitäten” (Fragile Identities).
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For collectors & spaces
For collectors who value photography as close observation: the works suit offices, law firms, architecture firms, agencies and modern living spaces.