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is about the beauty and strength of the human body. They are detailed shots of bodies that appear like a landscape due to their isolation. Concentrating on the individual parts of the body in this way has an alienating effect and there are also fewer judgments as to who these parts belong to. They are self-contained and stand for the separation of labeling and judgement. By depicting less 'perfect' body shapes, it is visualized that beauty does not have to be equated with perfection or identification.

BODY II

At first sight, the project BACKSITES is basicly looking at torsos back. But if you take a detailed look at its individual deformation, you gain insight about the back‘s history and incidents. A back reflects how much a body endured and suffered under daily and special conditions – it is a reflection of a life‘s experiences.
BACKSITES is a homage to human back – the essential part of the human body that connects head with all extremities.

When I took my first photograph of a back, that picture made me want to create a series. From that day on I captured further 98 human backs within four years of work. A back structure is fascinating, especially its figurative shape from hip to neck.

The human trunk had a special value during the era of renaissance, and I would like to give back the value it deserves in our modern times.
To point particularly it‘s unique shape and structure. In the 19th century, modeling the shape of a trunk became special kind of a art in plastic on its own. To represent a trunk was already practiced and honoured since the era of Antique Egypt and as well at the times of the Roman Empire.
Today we are living in a highly dynamic world, surrounded by so many digital Media, that we almost forgot about art in real life. I would like to revive this ancient art afresh.

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Gordon Schirmer