Black Album

The Aesthetics of Wounded Earth From a helicopter, Bernd Uhde photographs the world in a vertical view. It is not the virginity of untouched nature, but the cultural landscape shaped by man that forms the exciting repertoire of motifs in his art. Coal heaps, ore deposits and spoil heaps form the leitmotifs of the photographs brought together in this album, which light up with a fascinating presence against the black background. All groups of works reflect the artist's interest in forms and colors, in structures and textures as well as in basic principles of composition. Bernd Uhde’s photographic position has rightly been compared time and again to the view of a painter. His artistic achievement is to discover the extraordinary and mysterious and at the same time highly sensual by looking vertically at these places. The artist discovers “paintings” and these are visual finds whose aesthetic potential is only released and revealed through the distant view. After the very quickly sold-out “White Album”, the “Black Album” is the artist’s fourth photo book published by Seltmann Publishers. UAbout the artist:Bernd Uhde studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts and film at the DFFB Berlin. His large-format works have been shown in numerous exhibitions and publications throughout Europe.