Holding the Camera (New Extended Edition) gardens Jan Silberberger

Jan Silberberger

” Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors

But it’s also about the harsh realities of mothering through uncertainty

In the constellations of images on view

It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather-bound tomes or a mid-century masterpiece

Holding the Camera (New Extended Edition) gardens Jan SilberbergerHow one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes one eyed into the world. How one hides it in stockings, behind the back, and how one lets it peep out from behind the corner of a building, as though it were a detective. Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analogue photography. Like the dinosaurs, supposedly the victims of a violent meteorite