No title yet« Düsseldorf 2017; pigment print, 80 cm x 100 cm, unframed
108 pages, 20 x 27 cm, digital print
softcover, inluding a cd with 29 tracks of camera-sounds
edition of 75 copies, numbered
published by Böhm Kobayashi
order: boehmkobayashi.bigcartel.com
Since Oliver Sieber got his first Minolta XD7 in 1981 he kept all cameras he ever used in a cabinet in his studio. The collection includes several models by Contax or Plaubel, Hasselblad or Leica, Nikon or Fuji, Canon or Olympus; small, medium or large format – analogue or digital cameras. This collection is broadened with different lenses, flash lights, processors or other technical equipment.
Reasons to by a new camera, a new lense or a new flash light could be a new project or a new idea for an image for which you needed different equipment, different angels, different material; the other reasons would be be technical development or the shift from analogue to the digital photography. During the last years selling older analogue cameras would have been quite profitable. Now you could almost give some of them away for free.
In Oliver Sieber’s new book »For Sale« you find 51 photographs of cameras, lenses, flash-lights, film holders or other equipment he used over the last 25 years. You will also find 45 „reference-images“ from different photography-series and different decades taken with these cameras; portraits or landscape images, interiors, still-lifes or street photographs. The book also includes a CD with different sounds of all these cameras – a collaboration with Axel Ganz (www.jahrgangsgeraeusche.de) a musician and field recording-artist from Düsseldorf.
Rodenstock Sironar f 5.6/ 300 mm« Düsseldorf 2016; pigment print, 100 cm x 80 cm, edition: 5
16th Street West« Manhattan 1997; c-type print 70 cm x 50 cm, edition: 1 + 1 AP
Plaubel Makina 670« Düsseldorf 2016; pigment print, 80 cm x 100 cm, unframed
Fran« Langenfeld 2007; pigment print 93 cm x 113 cm, edition: 8
(second print size. c-type print, 50,5 cm x 65,5 cm)
Ricoh Caplio G4« Düsseldorf 2016; pigment print, 100 cm x 80 cm, pigment print, 100 cm x 80 cm, edition: 5
Power Adapter« Osaka 2006; c-type print 18 cm x 24 cm, edition: 5
Leica AF-C1« Düsseldorf 2016; pigment print, 100 cm x 80 cm, edition: 5
Chelsea Hotel« New York 2008; pigment print 80 cm x 100 cm, edition: 5
Sinar f« Düsseldorf 2016; pigment print, 100 cm x 80 cm, edition: 5
Dead End« San Francisco 2009; pigment print 60 cm x 80 cm in artist’s frame, edition: 8
Damian Zimmermann in Photonews
[…] Komplett auf die Spitze getrieben wird das Konzept zuletzt dadurch, dass Sieber dem Buch eine Audio-CD beigelegt hat, auf der man die Geräusche seiner Hasselblads, Rodenstocks, Polaroids, Wollensaks, Fujis, Nikons, Contax und Ricohs nachhören kann. Vom Öffnen des Faltlichtschachtes über das Einlegen der Filme und Ansetzen der Objektive bis zum Auslösen und Spannen der Verschlüsse. Das klingt total nerdig? Ist es auch. Aber es hat auch eine sinnliche Ebene und macht zudem Sinn, denn jeder Fotograf, der sein Equipment kennt und liebt, wird schon am Geräusch erkennen, ob irgendetwas nicht in Ordnung ist und ob die Aufnahme möglicherweise misslungen ist. read more please > click