Threshold Experiment

Keld Helmer-Petersen:

• Started taking photographs in 1938 when he got a camera as a graduation present.
• Interested in German inter-war photography and the new objectivity movement.
• inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch.
• 1948 – Published 122 Colour Photographs. 
• Began to experiment with the contrast in graphic black and white expression influenced by constructivist artists and their fascination with industry’s machines.
• Pushed limits of the media
• Throughout his career he worked with “cameraless” photography (a darkroom technique in which objects are placed directly on light-sensitive photographic paper).

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