 Barbara Wüllenweber /
Alexander Basile ///
Oldschool & Newschool –
two views of skateboard photography
/// ISBN 978-3-93918105-7
/// Verlag für Bildschöne Bücher 2007
/// Text in English and German
/// 72 Pages / 170 x 240 mm Hardcover
/// mit Texten von THESWEETD und Dirk Scheuring
/// Das nummerierte Buch mit zwei Digitalabzügen (9x13cm)
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/// 45,00 EUR
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Barbara Wüllenweber / Alexander Basile ///
Oldschool & Newschool – two views of skateboard photography
Two periods of time will be comprised: 1989 and 2002 up to the present. Barbara Wüllenweber analyzes Appearance, Clothing, Athletics, Soundscape and especially the acrobatic movement of the skater, that she has plotted with her camera among other things in the moment of dropin and return. She encounters a skater in the specific environment of the halfpipe in a skatepark with a study of airiness and movement. Her interest in the boys in their particular clothing shows a marked closeness in the shots.
The subject turned into a deeper fascination containing an intermixture of „twen admiration“ of Outlaw-style and enthusiasm for skatetricks. Essential for the transposition from a female point of view of the muscular bodies, in their individual 80ies fashion often with kneepads was a scientific flash-technique. Within those technical structure she tried to capture the moment of weightlessness. In the photography of the presence, shot on variable film-sizes Alexander Basile engages himself with the multifaceted urban perception of the skateboarder. How is a city that seems to be more and more adjusted into a controllable economic structure used by a space-experienced pirate? How does he constitute his knowledge on his inner maps and sketches of the architecture, that he urges to roll down constantly in interminable tricks?
The photography shows the skater in the interaction with urbanity and the physical contact with brick, concrete, glass, metal and wood. These architectural elements of a modern city that only a skater can live like this, as he constantly searches to experience urban static with his body and his equilibrium, are more consciously perceived than by a passer-by. Ironically the best „innercityexpert“ of his environment will finally always be banned of his area. |
