Anton Stankowski
Protocol of Time in a Car
Zurich, 1929
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Photography
Over 40,000 negatives are contained in Stankowski’s
photo archive. The spectrum ranges from snapshots to experimental photos,
from documentary images to photomontages. He did not prefer one kind of
photo to another; eating utensils were as important to him as the street
scenes in front of his apartment building or one of his self-portraits.
Many of the motifs were created for use in advertising, yet their unique
language of form is evidence of Stankowski’s experimental methods
of photography and his eager visual curiosity, which drove him to create
a kind of inventory of objects of this world. Stankowski began his task
of photographing his environment quite early on. As a student of Max Burchartz
at the Folkwangschule in Essen, he participated in a 1929 international
exhibition in Stuttgart, put on by the Deutscher Werkbund and devoted
to the theme, “Film and Photography.” In the same year, he
went to Zurich and set up a photography studio at Max Dalang’s advertising
agency. He linked typography and photography to become a pioneer of “photo-graphics.”
Today, his photographs can be seen in museums around the world.
Photography
Curators: Ulrike Gauss, Kassandra Nakas
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Anton Stankowski
Pea Pod, Photogram
1928 |