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Field of Vision Beijing - Beijing New Art Projects

German Artist Stephan Hausmeister realized his recent ‘Field of Vision’ multimedia project – at the art studio of the Gao Brothers located at Dashanzi, the art district of Chinas capital city.

After an open call, photographers contributed pictures, an amazing amount of almost 1000 images were in the final selection pool for the 10m long and 2.5 m high collage.

An international team of artists including the American painter Paul Dacey worked together on this collage which is now showcased at the gallery space of the brothers.

Special features of Chinese Writer and Artist Feifei Lu, British Video artist Helen Marshall, Photographers Alison Dalwood, Jenny Kao and mixed media artist Sam Jury are part of the current show.

To complete the concept of a multimedia installation, each focus point = picture of the collage can be clicked in the final version of the field of vision website, additional informations to the individual artists and selected picture is available if provided before as well.

The secret exhibition
Besides the remarkable project of Stephan Haausmeister, the gallery hosts held a ‚secret exhibition’ of their latest works, the ‘Miss Mao’ sculptures. Due to severe problems with official authorities because of the ‘controversal image’ used, it was not possible to showcase them in the main gallery room but behind a wall to wall curtain in the back-corner of the space. More issues with the authorities might become reality in the near future for the famous Chinese photographer duo.

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The early days of photography

The Albertina museum in Vienna will be displaying around 80 ‘daguerreotypes’ from the period dating from the 1840s to approximately 1850, which marks the beginning of the history of Austrian photography.

In 1839, ‘daguerreotypy’ was presented to the public in Paris as the first photographic process. It was named after the inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), who had developed it with his French countryman, the private scholar Nicéphore Niépce.

The light sensitivity of various materials had already been observed earlier, and it had been remarked that shadowgraphs or images projected through the lens of a camera obscura could be seen to emerge on these materials. Daguerre and Niépce’s main achievement was in being able to chemically fix these images, so that they would be permanent. The last important step in the birth of photography had thus been made.

The daguerreotype process involves exposing silver plates or, alternatively, silver-plated copper plates, to light. Because these image carriers are not transparent, they are referred to as direct-positives, which – in contrast to the later negative-positive process – do not produce reproductions (e.g., “prints” from a negative), but rather each one is unique in itself.

The shiny, polished metal plates, with their exceedingly fine surface structure, lend the pictures something exquisite, something of the preciousness of a miniature, but also something unerringly precise.

The Albertina’s photographic collection itself contains an unusual number of convincing examples from the pioneer era of Austrian ‘daguerreotypy’. To complement them, numerous loans– among them new discoveries – from private and public archives and collections in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria have been included.

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Field of Vision Beijing - Beijing New Art Projects

The early days of photography

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