In her photographic art, Marlen Wagner finds a way to combine her passion for dance and her fascination for movement swings and lines.<\/p>\n
What is the difference for you between photo art and holiday snapshots?<\/p>\n
“It might be that you find something really great through a snapshot – that’s coincidence. With my photo art, the medium or the material is also often coincidence. Because when I photograph dancers, I mostly choose the option of ‘serial photography’, which means I sometimes take 400 photos or more in an hour – and then I select. If something in a photo appeals to me, I then want to trace it further and work out what is special about it. But I wouldn’t edit snapshots from a holiday like that; I might straighten the horizon or brighten it up a bit.”<\/p>\n
Do you have an immediate idea in your head of how you might photo-edit your shots afterwards when you take them?<\/p>\n
“It happens very rarely that I have an idea in my head right away. I just see, I watch, I take photos. And that’s why it can happen that my photographs sometimes remain in the drawer for a year or two. I look at them again and again. At some point it “clicks” in my head and I know what these photos are telling me and I then work out this trait. I also have photos from five years ago that haven’t spoken at all. They still don’t say anything except, ‘We look quite pretty’ – and I don’t think that’s enough.”<\/p>\n
Your photographs focus on movement and dance. How do you go about your specific choice of subject? Do you find the subject or does it find you?<\/p>\n
“It varies. When I’m out and about and something comes across me and it says: Hello, here I am,’ then the motif finds me. But it can also be that I go out specifically when I read about a dance event that is taking place in a public space. Then I watch what happens. But it has also been the case that I have watched and not even taken out my camera because the event in no way corresponded to my feeling for movement form and dance. For example, when a dance is too predictable.<\/p>\n
If you had only one word or phrase to describe your photographic work – what would that word or phrase be?<\/p>\n
“If it is limited to dance photography only: in motion.”<\/p>\n
Anne Wonneb, Berlin 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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