I was asked to at look both of these pictures..
..and write an “Aufsatz” or essay of my interpretation of these two pieces. Yep, my first essay written in German, you can read it here.
As for the Artist, his name is Arnold Odermatt, a retired Swiss policeman whose job it was to photograph accident scenes.
Odermatt was the first officer in Switzerland to begin documenting these tragic scenes on film. According to the Record: “Setting his tripod on the roof of a police van, he first shot a series of straightforward images to accompany accident reports and on-site police drawings.
Hours later, when onlookers had gone and most traces of violence had been cleared away, he returned to make a final, more highly aestheticized portrait of the wrecked vehicles.”
Those are nice pictures! Very interesting!
Cool pictures indeed! You never know who around you might just be an artist, huh? Or where they might find their inspiration for that matter.
The picures are haunting but in a beautiful way. Odermatt seems to be quite a photograper.
howdy-ho,
i’m back form missouri with molly and family. mountains, lake, no internet.
love the photogrphs.
molly and chad are off to europe
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Me can’t imagine the “violence” that took place in these pictures. Very surreal.
hope youre having a great time in france
I really like these pictures. They fire your imagination and shift you into a different world. But I wouldn’t like them in my living room though…