Vanitas

My Vanitas pictures are inspired by 16th century Vanitas pictures, which is a genre in Still Life that depicts the inevitability of death and the ephemerality and emptiness of human life. I use the same motif in my Screen Print as in my Polaroid-Transfer, but  the Polaroid-Transfer pictures not only depict the transience of life, they are, as photographic material, dissolving on the paper to which they are transferred.

 

images

  1. Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in . 2010
    Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in . 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  2. Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in . 2010
    Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in . 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  3. Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  4. Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  5. Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Polaroid Transfer on paper. 7,5 cm x 9,5 cm / 2,9 in x 3,7 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  6. Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  7. Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  8. Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg
  9. Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    Vanitas. Screen Print on paper. 40cm x 50 cm / 15,7 x 19,6 in. 2010
    type: image / jpeg