Katharina Sieverding
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Katharina Sieverding (born, 1944) is a photographer known her self-portraiture.
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[edit] Early life
Sieverding was born in Prague. She began studying art at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf in 1967. There she studied sculpture for five years and her photography career began.
[edit] Photography career
Sieverding's works consist of self-portraiture and most have an abstract quality. She uses the techniques of silhouette, contrast, and extreme close-up to make the photograph more revealing of herself. Her work often makes statements about society and the individual, such as showing the familiarity of the self and the distance of others. Oftentimes she puts multiple portraits together in one piece. Each portrait fills the frame in a way to show the presence of self.
Sieberding has also made political statements through her photography using both German and American history as the basis. For example, “Stauffenberg-Block” was named after Claus Philip Schenk Von Stauffenberg, an officer who tried to assassinate Hitler. “The Great White Way Goes Black” is a piece that refersto the New York City blackout of summer 1977.
[edit] Notable photographs
- “The Great White Way Goes Black”
- ”Stauffenberg-Block”
- ”Motorkamera”
- ”XVII”
- ”Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen”
- ”Untitled (Ultramarine)”
- ”Maton”
[edit] Films
- ”Life-Death”
- ”Beijing, Yanan, Xian, Luoyang”
- ”Shanghai”
[edit] References and links
- "Katharina Sieverding: Close Up" MoMA P.S.1
- list of links
- Fricke, Harald. "Intimacy on a Large Scale: A Conversation with Katharina Sieverding" db artmag.
