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Konrad Goetz
the photographer
1929 - 2005
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Born in Munich/Germany in 1929, Konrad Goetz devoted himself to photography for more than forty years.
Landscapes and scientific studies have constituted his areas of special interest. After many years of international activities in the camera- industry, Goetz focused his exclusive attention on creating macro-photographs of fossils and minerals for the past years.
Konrad Goetz died on April 21st in 2005.
His images will keep on shining in our hearts.
Konrad Goetz, 2002
Ludwig-Thoma-Str. 12
D-82110 Germering/Germany
Tel/Fax +49-89-8416456
Konrad Goetz about his work:
"My pictures feature motifs derived from the tiniest details in primordial stones, crystals and fossils, some of which are about 2,5 billion years old..."
"After more than forty years of passionate interest in photography, I moved away from large-scale subjects, and discovered that the smallest in fact contains the largest. My ongoing quest for the special and the unique has impelled me to penetrate even more deeply into a world which is ordinarily invisible to the naked eye."
"Only modern techniques in photography have permitted my view into an unknown primeval world. My pictures stem from a period of time, that we can hardly imagine. They are photographs of smallest details of fossils, minerals and primitive rocks - insights into a macro-cosmos, created by evolution. There is art - not created by man but discovered by the human eye - and a camera!"
"Supposedly, mankind as the last development of evolution is still in relation with our primeval background: German poet Gottfried Benn assumed that our brain has a collective memory of the primeval world. My motifs are documents of a pre-human harmony and beauty within the aura of a million years, trying to relate us to our beginning..."
"I realize how thoroughly nature is permeated by spirit.The eternal principle of change and transformation manifests itself - and one senses the presence of the infinite."
Nominated as a member of DGPh - German Photographic Society
Contract with Prof. Werner Schulze - University for Music and the Performing Arts, VIENNA, who used 40 images for projection as stage design.
All images ©KonradGoetz/MACROPHOTOGRAPHY