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Amazing + Analogue

All things pertaining the use of analogue technology in all it's manifestations

Recent Work

"Voelklingen - Forbach", a photographic record by thomasroessler

This is a conceptual work on “landscape” consisting of 9 photos and a map. / The city of Forbach/France had coal-mines. Voelklingen had an ironwork, shut in the eighties, now part of world cultural heritage.The coal from Forbach was burned at Voelklingen ironworks. / The process of melting ore left invisible traces in / the soil. (Invisibility is always interesting to me) / After drawing a line on the map I walked along this line. My luggage was an old 5×7 inch-Plaubel. On each of the spots, marked on the map I took a photo of the surface of the earth and filled a bag with a bit of soil. The photographed spot measured 70×100 cm. Later on the cibachrome prints should have this size, I reproduced the surface in 1 : 1 scale. / The soil was examined by a lab specialized on environmental research. I asked how much plumbum, arsenic and cadmium was in the soil taken from my photo spots. The results were scratched into the surfaces of my transparencies with the help of an etching-needle.
My week, monday - a photographic record by thomasroessler

this is a series from photographed in the eighties. / I documented my lunch at university for the period of two months – here I’m showing only one week. Canon AE-1, 1 : 1,8 50mm
romantic route - a photographic record by thomasroessler

Stetten castle/Germany camera: Fuji GSW 690 / car: Volkswagen
romantic route - a photographic record by thomasroessler

Harsberg/Germany camera: Fuji GSW 690 / car: VW Golf
romantic route - a photographic record by thomasroessler

Steinbacher Tal/Germany camera: Fuji GSW 690 / car: Audi quattro
romantic route - a photographic record by thomasroessler

Neuenstein/Germany camera: Fuji GSW 690 / car: VW Golf
romantic route - a photographic record by thomasroessler

Langenburg/Germany camera: Fuji GSW 690 / car: Mercedes van
Romantic route - a photographic record (1) by thomasroessler

A series on travelling, tourism and the question: / how do means of transport change our perception? / I revisited the region where I was born. / This shot was taken in Rothenburg/Germany. / Camera: I used a Fuji GSW 690 and forgot to / ask the lady in front of me, which tool she preferred.

About This Group

This is a group for serious lovers of the marvellous magical world of analouge. That mostly means film or film based artworks but analouge could also mean using a digital with macro to shoot through the viewfinder of an old roliflex or it could mean using a pencil to make a sketch on paper or making a paper stencil to spray on a wall or a tee shirt. It could also mean using a pinhole camera you have made yourself and loaded with photopaper. Maybe analouge means writing a considered critique about a quirky old process that you still use like cross processing or handcolouring your photo’s…. painting with a brush as opposed to painting with a mouse is also an analouge technique. Writers might have a story about a old typewriter that they love and just can’t move away from. Tee shirt designers might have some designs featuring old tapedecks or cameras or something like that. All those things would be considered authenically analouge. Also there is a special clause that covers ‘amazing’..... convince us that what you do is really amazing and we’ll invoke the ‘amazing’ clause…..

The key to this group is an understanding and love of genus analouge in all it’s manifestions and the ability to share that passion with others. The works submitted must originate from or allude to there origins from an analouge technique or have analouge technology at the centre of its being somehow.

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