Erwin Rachbauer

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Erwin Rachbauer's photography is very contradictory! 

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ERWIN RACHBAUER BORN 1959 IN AUSTRIA, PHOTOGRAPHED SINCE HE WAS 17. A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF THE LATE ARTIST JOSEF PAUSCH, INFLUENCED HIM SIGNIFICANTLY AND ENCOURAGED HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC AMBITIONS!

 

JOURNEYS TO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND THEIR CULTURES EXPANDED HIS CONSCIOUSNESS AND INFLUENCED HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE!

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ERWIN RACHBAUER LIVES AND WORKS IN LINZ / AUSTRIA

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DIFFERENT SHORT AND LONG-TERM SERIES WERE RESULTED. PEOPLE AND MATTER, MY FACE, PEOPLE IN CITIES, E.M.

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Entitled: TRUE MOMENTS 1986 - 2016

3 short videos are intended to underline and document the transformation from advertising photographer to artist.

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1st. video "Humans and Matter"

Erwin Rachbauer reinterprets the theme of "transience" with the aura of the limited, the imperfect, and redefines and reworks it in the form of old instant photo material (Polaroid) and various film material whose time has long since passed and production has ceased. A material that for decades satisfied the wishes of more or less talented photographers and was available shortly after the photograph was taken, thanks to its typical color aura. This material, whose days are numbered, which would be ready for the great, the irretrievable moment. The "True Moment" which plays an important and decisive role in Erwin Rachbauer's photography.

Basically, it can be said that the image worlds of Erwin Rachbauer are always subject to an expiry date, a camera world that does not function perfectly, expired film material and temporal situations that will no longer exist!

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His own "Artistic Expression".

 

2nd. video "My Face"

Erwin Rachbauer's photography is very complex. On the one hand he met people in the late 80s and documents the status quo after physical, cosmetic corrections of violence for posterity. Cosmetic surgery (Dr. Wolfgang Metka) was not quite as common then as it is today, the local supply was limited.

 

3rd. video "People in metropolises"

Erwin Rachbauer's street photography in the world's metropolises shows the everyday street scene in the age of digitalization and mobile telephony. The difference to older photographs is all the more obvious: the smartphone has become an integral part of the human being in the street scene. He is preoccupied with this insight and has made a considerable contribution to his street photography in the series "People in Metropolises".

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He also liked to be at home in the metropolises of the world, to do photographic justice to the rapid changes in the age of mobile telephony. He was inspired by the rapidly changing appearance of individual telephone users and the collective mobile telephony in public urban spaces, but also by classical street photography with all its facets around what cities, people and architecture in urban areas have to offer, in the here and now of the turn of the millennium and beyond.

 

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