Walter Niedermayr's Pale Mountains: A Serial Photography of Snowy Vastness
Walter Niedermayr's photographic series 'montagnes pâles' captures snowy expanses where human presence is only implied through traces. The self-taught artist adopts an objective approach, maintaining distance from his subject to challenge the traditional nature-culture dichotomy. He rejects comparisons to painting, avoids moral judgments, and employs multiple viewpoints in a serial method to break the specificity of the instant.
Key facts
- Walter Niedermayr is a self-taught photographer.
- His series 'montagnes pâles' depicts snowy landscapes with only traces of humans.
- He works in an objective register to interrogate the nature-culture opposition.
- Niedermayr refuses any comparison of his work to painting.
- He uses a serial approach with multiple points of view to break the specificity of the instant.
- The article was published in artpress in February 1998.
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Artists
- Walter Niedermayr
Institutions
- artpress
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