Description: The first-ever publication of Jürgen Klauke's Polaroids offers a rare insight into the genesis of one of Germany's most influential performance and media artists. Jürgen Klauke is one of the foremost German performance, photography, and media artists. With relish and provocation, his groundbreaking oeuvre explores the transformative character of identities and the aesthetic dimensions of our existence. Instant Images is an invitation to witness a rediscovery. For the first time, it presents to the public polaroids taken by Klauke more than five decades ago. Created as a photographic test series since the late 1960s, they allow us to observe how Klauke experimented with ideas and forms, using the photographic instant image for developing and rehearsing his artistic strategies. The polaroids reveal the very origins of his oeuvre. In his comprehensive afterword, Steffen Siegel outlines this body of work's art-historical and photo-historical significance.
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Steffen Siegel is professor of the theory and history of photography at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.