Markéta Othová

• We could read something from this book but I can´t read nicely.00:00:02.808
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• I used to like this book.00:00:09.573
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• It´s by Daniel Charms.00:00:11.806
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• I don´t really know what to say about him.00:00:14.994
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• There lived a red-haired man,00:00:18.137
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• who had no eyes and no ears,00:00:20.152
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• and no hair, so people called him redhead just from habit,00:00:21.972
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• he could not speak since he had no mouth,00:00:25.356
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• he had no nose, no arms nor legs,00:00:26.879
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• no belly, no back,00:00:29.817
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• no spine, no guts,00:00:31.562
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• he had nothing so we do not know who we are talking about.00:00:34.655
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• We´d better stop talking about him.00:00:38.758
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• January 7, 1937.00:00:41.240
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• I used to like this a lot.00:00:43.976
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• One of my first photographs looked like this.00:00:51.533
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• I took it at the school toilet.00:01:01.036
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• And then a short text came out in a newspaper00:01:03.122
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• - I still can´t forget it -00:01:08.073
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• saying that Markéta Othová offers a view of blurred tips of shoes and floor tiles.00:01:11.462
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• I was completely heart-broken and yet, it was a mere description...00:01:18.434
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• Now I laugh, but I was really upset about it for fifteen years.00:01:23.968
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• I said to myself: What idiots, to write such a thing about such a nice photo...00:01:27.689
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• As if it mattered.00:01:33.144
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• I was standing there.00:01:42.733
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• I wanted to find all the places I went to.00:01:51.169
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• I started marking the places in this book.00:01:57.153
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• I was proud how many pieces of architecture I had seen.00:02:02.353
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• And then... oh, I used to pass this place in Paris.00:02:10.472
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• There´s the Brooklyn Bridge.00:02:19.304
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• I also saw this.00:02:26.634
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• Like a Japanese tourist.00:02:32.432
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• They´re normal things. I also saw this one.00:02:37.710
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• I was in Oak Park in Chicago, I saw all these houses there.00:02:39.574
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• What have we got here? Oh, yes, I was inside this church.00:02:45.191
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• Frank Loyd Wright.00:02:50.011
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• I was here. I saw many iconic pieces of architecture more or less by accident,00:02:51.900
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• I didn´t search for them intentionally.00:03:06.203
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• I just happened to be near by, so I went to see the place.00:03:08.411
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• Then I looked for photos of the places on the Internet and00:03:14.895
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• I realized everybody took photos of a building from the same place.00:03:19.057
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• I added to my black-and-white photograph a small photo from the Internet.00:03:24.759
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• I was there, and this is what I found.00:03:28.832
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• Well, it´s not exactly the same.00:03:38.093
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• Everybody takes photos from the same place.00:03:57.425
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• It´s funny.00:04:00.724
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• This is a bit different.00:04:06.661
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• But I was there.00:04:08.651
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• This is Moscow.00:04:13.849
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• The studio of architect Melnikov.00:04:17.283
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• And there´s snow there.00:04:21.112
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• Perhaps in Russia there´s snow all the time.00:04:23.088
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• Wait, I´ll show you something..00:04:28.525
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• This is what our granny drew for us.00:04:29.746
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• I still have the original flip book somewhere.00:04:35.876
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• Here it is.00:04:43.107
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• From my granny... it´s a bit dirty now.00:04:47.952
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• Oh, look, there´s another one.00:04:55.889
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• Two other figures fighting...00:04:57.541
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• So there are two stories. One about a growing cactus...00:05:07.646
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• someone scribbled over it... perhaps my mum...00:05:10.798
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• This photo from the bath was taken in a mirror.00:05:22.268
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• I was sitting there and I just liked the strange haze.00:05:25.100
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• It´s very underexposed that´s why it´s sort of dream-like.00:05:35.231
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• If the exposition was right, the way it is with digital cameras now,00:05:40.895
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• the photo would look so terribly realistic that I couldn´t use it.00:05:47.124
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• I liked the situation and thanks to the wrong exposition the result was so beautiful00:05:55.314
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• that I started working with it.00:06:03.871
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• This can´t happen now with the perfect gadgets.00:06:08.590
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• I never tried to benefit from my unfamiliarity with technology,00:06:13.883
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• I simply like it when it´s blurred, when it´s hardly visible.00:06:23.507
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• When it´s all dark and you just have a faint idea what´s there.00:06:28.252
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• Perhaps because I changed my camera I started taking photos of more concrete things.00:06:35.030
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• I liked the new opportunities it offered.00:06:41.200
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• Strawberries can be red for instance...00:06:45.805
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• I often took photos of feet. Feet standing somewhere in the sea...00:06:51.646
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• It´s natural that the photographer suddenly tilts his camera down00:06:56.981
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• and everybody does it. I want to capture my feet in the sand in NY, on Coney Island,00:07:06.023
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• your sneakers in the sand to say "I was there".00:07:14.783
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• I still like it.00:07:20.682
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• Or in a town where you see your reflection in a shop window..00:07:24.103
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• I used to like all this.00:07:30.428
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• Now I concentrate on cups and grapes and so on...00:07:36.662
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• Those still-life photos were linked with my spending more time at home00:07:43.183
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• and coming across household things more often.00:07:50.338
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• It was just a practically chosen topic.00:07:56.998
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• In the past I also made still-life photos00:08:04.959
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• but for example objects on the table in a café.00:08:09.331
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• You can feel that homely atmosphere.00:08:13.823
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• I like apples in a bowl. But that´s an old old subject.00:08:17.655
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• When you used the word "still-life" and began arranging the things on the table,00:08:26.038
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• so I suddenly really felt like taking a photo.00:08:33.508
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• When I said I didn´t want to take photos any more00:08:40.908
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• that I didn´t enjoy it,00:08:44.568
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• so perhaps only still-life photos...00:08:45.736
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• I enjoy looking at photographs00:08:51.312
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• but there are too many of them00:08:53.555
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• around us.00:08:58.810
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• This is beautiful. I love pictures.00:09:09.567
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• It´s a kind of silly hobby.00:09:18.870
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• Look. Here´s the balcony where Juliet stood.00:09:27.824
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• It´s from Verona.00:09:35.704
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• And there´s another nice thing, it´s over there behind you.00:09:37.800
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• It´s an important thing.00:09:46.162
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• We like it very much.00:09:48.840
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• It´s an invitation, works by Václav Stratil.00:09:51.401
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• "I do nothing and other works".00:09:58.684
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• That´s fantastic.00:10:02.311
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• Several times, maybe because I didn´t know what to do,00:10:07.914
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• I displayed one photo twice, mirrored,00:10:13.041
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• which somehow fascinated me,00:10:22.217
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• and I felt it was the right thing, it was an important moment,00:10:27.566
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• I didn´t want to emphasize the photographs to such an extent any more,00:10:33.020
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• and I used them as decoration.00:10:39.046
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• I created a small composition for a wall00:10:41.779
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• a kind of kaleidoscope,00:10:46.338
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• and I liked it and then came the exhibition in Bonn.00:10:48.031
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• It was a one-man show, and in the middle of the gallery00:10:54.834
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• there was a cube with a video by Peter Atkins.00:10:57.818
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• You walked into the room and looked at00:11:01.725
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• a series of unimpressive photographs00:11:08.046
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• of different formats and materials,00:11:12.921
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• shiny, mat, coloured, black-and-white,00:11:16.956
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• it was meant to be sort of bland,00:11:20.999
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• unimportant scenes.00:11:23.896
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• So you were looking at them and suddenly00:11:27.487
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• in the middle of the gallery behind the box00:11:31.770
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• this is what happened... at a smaller photograph00:11:39.526
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• you continued forward and you saw everything behind you,00:11:43.687
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• and I really liked this.00:11:48.574
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• You walked forward but the images00:11:50.605
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• took you back to what you had already experienced00:11:53.486
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• but they were reversed.00:11:57.613
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• There was a kind of whirl00:11:59.979
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• and the possibility to enlarge a negative from both sides00:12:05.213
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• may result in you making a mistake.00:12:11.653
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• If you use a negative and don´t know what the reality was like.00:12:13.302
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• This is also a nice thing to emphasize.00:12:16.542
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• Sometimes you can tell the image is reversed.00:12:22.287
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• I don´t mean inscriptions. You can simply feel something is wrong.00:12:24.315
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• But other times you don´t know what the reality was.00:12:30.488
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• Oh, I remember!00:13:01.514
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• I wanted to tell you something about my surname. This is the book I told you about.00:13:06.558
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• I want to show you my dad.00:13:16.109
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• That´s my dad.00:13:19.225
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• So that you don´t mistake him for another guy.00:13:25.884
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• The glass is coloured. This is what it looks like.00:13:30.643
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• It is coloured.00:13:33.759
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• Here you can feel the work of the person who made it.00:13:43.039
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• He must have held it like this,00:13:49.176
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• here he had to press against the wheel,00:13:51.372
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• I don´t know how,00:13:56.198
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• and here is the signature - Oth.00:13:59.916
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• He engraved it.00:14:03.270
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• Or someone asked him to engrave his name.00:14:04.598
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• He gave this piece of glass to somebody in Brno00:14:06.816
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• and I bought it at an auction.00:14:10.278
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• I was terribly upset that it was sold for such a small sum of money.00:14:11.979
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• So I went to the auction00:14:21.458
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• determined to get it. I was nervous,00:14:23.015
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• I knew I mustn´t show I´m interested,00:14:26.983
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• and at the last moment I bidded. It cost eight thousand,00:14:29.557
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• which was a lot for me at that time.00:14:35.252
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• But at the following auction his work was sold for twenty five thousand.00:14:37.403
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• I couldn´t afford to buy them any more.00:14:41.796
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• But I was happy to see the glass was sold for a better price,00:14:43.934
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• because they are beautiful objects.00:14:47.298
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• It was a small victory.00:14:51.882
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• I bought it about a week after my dad died.00:14:55.299
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• My intention was not to enlarge it,00:14:59.480
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• but I wanted it to appear natural within the surrounding space.00:15:05.178
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• When the object lies on a table, it´s small,00:15:11.419
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• and you get some impression,00:15:16.123
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• and if you want the same impression in a large hall,00:15:17.993
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• so it must be bigger.00:15:21.234
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• The form is emphasized a lot,00:15:25.027
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• It´s like impregnable... not impregnable glass... sounds nice but...00:15:28.475
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• the objects are in fact quite small,00:15:40.402
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• they can be held in a hand,00:15:41.961
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• the person who made them must have held them in his hand,00:15:43.736
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• we spoke about this already.00:15:48.422
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• I wanted it to look like a finding,00:15:51.133
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• and I was afraid that the large format will seem too showy,00:15:55.067
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• that it would look like something else,00:15:59.793
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• but finally I think this didn´t happen and I liked it.00:16:06.205
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• I don´t really like glass and photographs of glass00:16:10.877
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• the so-called art glass,00:16:18.732
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• but I do like my father´s glass very much for personal reasons.00:16:21.581
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• And I didn´t want his works to be photographed like glass.00:16:30.314
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• I wanted the glass to be photographed like an object standing on a table for example.00:16:34.609
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• Glass is often photographed on glass00:16:43.348
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• with lots of artificial light.00:16:45.150
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• I used only natural light,00:16:48.224
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• daylight from a roof light,00:16:50.759
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• and I wanted it to look as if the objects were forgotten somewhere,00:16:55.257
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• I didn´t want them to look like photos of objects,00:17:00.274
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• but in the end they did a bit00:17:04.616
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• because I always took a photo of one object or a group.00:17:10.721
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• Anyway, it was nice that they were photos of concrete objects,00:17:15.668
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• I have never done that before.00:17:21.013
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• Well, and since that time I can´t take photographs.00:17:33.296
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• It seemed so terribly important at that time,00:17:35.824
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• and I liked the outcome so much that I´m not interested in other things.00:17:41.287
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• I´ll finish the photos of my father´s work,00:17:46.083
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• I may have a book published,00:17:51.306
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• but that´s a different type of work,00:17:52.852
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• and things will move on and then I may start taking different photographs.00:17:58.766
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• I can continue, if I like, I haven´t taken photos of all my father´s things.00:18:08.931
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• But for me it´s over now, the event is over,00:18:16.641
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• as I told you, whenever I did a series of photographs,00:18:22.604
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• it was always for that one given moment, one event,00:18:29.318
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• one exhibition, one space00:18:35.590
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• and then I couldn´t continue00:18:37.809
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• although theoretically it would be possible.00:18:41.016
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• And this will be the same case. I may focus on a book.00:18:45.201
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• That´s to finish our chat about my father.00:18:51.295

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