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Michael Nether - On Stage (German, Hardcover)
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Michael Nether - On Stage (German, Hardcover)
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Text in English & German. When at the end of the 1960s Michael
Nether set out for Berlin, that city held enormous attraction for
young intellectuals and artists, just as it had done in the Roaring
Twenties. There were demonstrations and happenings, there was
Kommune 1 with Rainer Langhans and Uschi Obermeier, and everywhere
people held endless discussions that continued throughout the
night. Scandalous theatrical performances and legendary concerts
with musicians such as Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen and
George Moustaki gave expression to a new sensibility. And then
there was Klaus Kinski, in his unforgettable performance of Jesus
Christ and other one-man shows. Nether photographed what he saw
face to face -- 'on stage' -- including stars of international
cinema like Claudia Cardinale, Roman Polanski, Peter Ustinov or
Pier Paolo Pasolini. One of his first photos was the scene of a
1969 student demonstration at the Berlin Gedachtniskirche. Crowds
of people throng the streets observed by countless curious
passersby, and the police are there with their vans. The
composition of the picture can hardly have happened by chance. Cars
and the facades of buildings are points of reference past which
people wind like a huge serpent. At the centre top of the picture
there is a bright light. The photo sums up the atmosphere of
departure and the state of mind of an entire generation. Here
Nether demonstrates that he is an articulate documentary
photographer. Towards the end of the 1970s, Nether returned to his
home region of Swabia. Here he went into business with a partner,
worked for advertising agencies -- for instance, taking photographs
for Porsche in the company's research and development centre in
Weissach -- but he also gradually made a name for himself as a
photographic artist, with his own gallery in Bietigheim-Bissingen;
particularly noteworthy were his pictures of prominent celebrities
such as Wolf Biermann, Martin Walser, Woody Allen or Helmut Newton,
as well as numerous photos of performances by the Stuttgart Ballet,
but also of "street people". He succeeds in subtly communicating
with the latter in these photos and making this dialogue visible.
Today his main interest focuses on photographing portraits and
nudes. In 2009 the International Center of Photography in New York
purchased 100 photographs by Nether.
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