For The Love Of...

...California:

©Werner Amann, June 2008

Roadtrip III / Living In A Box

Miami - Kansas City














©Werner Amann, May 2008

Roadtrip II

©Werner Amann, Miami 2008

Roadtrip I

Here is a first selection of portraits I took during a recent trip from Miami to Kansas City














©Werner Amann, June 2008

Sternenstaub

Sternenstaub in der Nähe von Joshua Tree.

Ich bin bis ca Mitte September in Los Angeles.

I will be working in Los Angeles till around Mid-September - then back in Berlin.
If you have a shooting here or know about a good party, exhibition etc. call me at +1 323 334 5602




Sternenstaub ©Werner Amann, June 2008

Mirco and Andre

from a series of portraits I took of friends last summer.

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough

... said Robert Capa, who is probably the first guy to embody the cliché of the photographer as adventurer akin to Hemingway's image of writer/adventurer.

Theres an interesting NYtimes piece on boxes of his negatives of the Spanish Civil War which were thought to be lost since decades but have been rediscovered recently.

There's probably a book and exhibition coming up but till then - one picture I really like -
of the box with the roll of negatives which you can see on a slide show here:
Link

I'm not sure if digital data would survive for 75 years laying around in boxes like this, but it seems that these negative are still in a pretty good shape.

Influenzia - Photographers

Influenzia - photographers, in no particular order

Wegee: Frechheit, jewish humour
Man Ray: eros & technique
Jack Pierson: words, sharp and blured
Nobuyoshi Araki: japanese dragon, no categories, laughter, perversion and culture
Marvin Heiferman: archive art
Gueorgui Pinkhassov: dream journalism
Larry Clark: fresh and dirty
Takashi Homma: look at me, lick me
Robert Mapplethorpe: obsessive form

more to come...

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

I was rather busy the last weeks and months with different commercial projects - which I don't post so much on the blog - but I also managed to go to Tel Aviv for a personal project. I'm still editing the material (I also shot some interviews on video) but here's already a little preview:

Tel Aviv

I will be in Tel Aviv for a personal projekt from this Wendsday on. I'm also planning to visit the Negev desert and Jerusalem for a day.
I'm visiting for the first time and I'm very much open for any tips, advice, locations, people, places etc...

Its a trip I wanted to make since years and I'm happy its finally becoming real!

HeartBeatBerlin

Together with Diane Vincent I am doing another blog called HeartBeatBerlin. Right now most of the pictures - the B/W polaroids - are actually from her - so much more reason to check it out if you are bored of my stuff ;-)

Link

Webpage Updated

My webpage is updated and redesigned!
Please have a look:

www.werneramann.com

Link

A blog I like to check out regularly:

www.aphotoeditor.com

goskate

Together with my grandfather I recently decided to go and learn skating. Here's a picture of my Opa on his board.

Portraits in ZEITmagazin LEBEN

This is Jonathan Meese. I shot him for the ZeitMagazin Leben, with the theme "How was your summer?". The portrait of Johnny can be found in the current issue of Leben, among Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Paul von Dyk.

Die italienische Reise

Back from a 2weektrip through Italy - here's some pictures I took while travelling.

New Work

Here's previews of new work - a mix of street photography and portraits and cityscapes. I'm editing all of that together right now.

Juliane, Berlin 2007


Junge, Berlin Adlershof 2007

Favourite Videos Part 1

Chapter 1
*Gay House Music Saves the World*

Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around - 1986

First house track I ever heard. And everything else all of a sudden was not so interesting anymore.

Bad Mood Day

Redoing my webpage right now - and it looks like these two images probably won't make the final cut , so I'm showing them here.

I'm in a bad mood today and these two pics from Brazil actually make me feel better.

Thomas Hirschhorn

This was one of my favourite exhibitions this year so far: Thomas Hirschhorn's installation "Stand-Alone" at Arndt&Partner in Berlin. It recently closed but here's a link with pictures and text:

LINK

The effect of going through the rooms hardly comes across in the pictures but what happend to me was that I first was rather irritated and I didn't really know what to do with it but more and more fascination (and also shock) creeped in. I saw a lot of good exhibitions latley but I haven't experienced that mix of confusion and fascination so much.

I also found his text tres sympa (click the link). I don't think I understand or agree with everything he says but it's for sure a nice departure from the rule that you shouldn't explain your own work.