Fotografie für den geistigen Gebrauch
7 February – 1 June 2025
Kulturzentrum am Münster, Konstanz
The work of Roger Humbert (1929 – 2022) positions him as a pioneer in 20th century photography. His dictum “I photograph the light” describes the coincidence of subject and object, of materiality and consciousness and thus of physics and metaphysics within his artistic research work. His photographs for intellectual use. Humbert produces most of them in the solitude of the darkroom at night: unique photograms and luminograms are created through the unrepeatable play with templates, which serve the artist as pre-digital image generators. Together with René Mächler, Rolf Schroeter and Jean-Frederick Schnyder, he founded concrete photography in the 1960s.
The exhibition will be shown at the Fotostiftung Schweiz from 21.06 to 12.10.2025.