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Fleischmanns, Pinhole Portrait

Fleischmanns, Pinhole Portrait

Fleischmanns, Pinhole Portrait First pinhole cameras arrived from Stuttgart in October 2009. The goal was to survey the town from far away. At the beginning, the pinhole camera documented the view from the gallery window. Later on, the cameras were distributed among...

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Kinetic Installations I

Kinetic Installations I

Kinetic Installations IInfinity - House of Literature Stuttgart, 2014 Filmstrip:Muybridge - Man Running/1878/ Serial photography on collodion plates.Zajfert - Woman Running/2014/ 3D Computer AnimationLight sculpture - Dotyk motyla -BWA Wroclaw 1998 Material: 5 copper...

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Pictures from Winsen with the Camera Obscura

Pictures from Winsen with the Camera Obscura

Pictures from Winsen with the Camera Obscura Speech on the occasion of the vernissage by Mathias Riemann I would like to welcome Przemek Zajfert to the exhibition in the rooms of the Winser Kulturcafé next door. Mr Zajfert, who lives in Stuttgart and is a photographer...

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750 pictures for Sindelfingen

750 pictures for Sindelfingen

750 pictures for Sindelfingen An art and participation project by the Citizens for Sindelfingen. Idee und Betreuung: Veranstalter des SINDELFINGER - HANDWERKERMARKTS - Familie Hein und Przemek Zajfert. For the city's anniversary - 750 years of Sindelfingen - in 2013,...

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700 Days of Metzingen – Obscura Camera Mapping

700 Days of Metzingen – Obscura Camera Mapping

700 Days of Metzingen - Obscura Camera MappingA project with 100 pinhole cameras at various locations in and around Metzingen. The project is designed as an art and participation action and takes place within the framework of the international project that has been...

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Measuring Time – Art Cabinet – WMF Geislingen

Measuring Time – Art Cabinet – WMF Geislingen

Measuring Time Art Cabinet - WMF GeislingenPermanence in the twilight Eva Heer,  2013-07-13, Photos: Markus Sontheimer The photographer and installation artist Prezmek Zajfert is showing works entitled "Measuring Time" in the Kunstkabinett in the Fischhalle of the...

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Camera Obscura Technique

Camera Obscura Technique

Camera Obscura TechniqueCamera Obscura - dark room, into which light can fall through a small hole.  On the opposite side, a reduced and upside-down image of the surroundings is created. If there is film coated with silver bromide, this image can be recorded.Pinhole...

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Forever and ever

Forever and ever

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history"—yet only a minute. After nature had...

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Books

Books

Camera Obscura Heidelberg, Przemek Zajfert, Burkhard Walther with a foreword by Hilde Domin and Michael Raffel180 pages (110 photos and 40 historical texts)Edition Merid, StuttgartCamera Obscura Stuttgart, Przemek Zajfert with a foreword by Dr Wolfgang Milov, edition...

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Camera Obscura Berlin – Stuttgart

Camera Obscura Berlin – Stuttgart

Camera Obscura Double Exposures Stuttgart-Berlin Przemek Zajfert - Marek Pozniak In 1999, two artists who did not know each other until then founded a project called "Exchange in Process" to realise an exhibition in Wroclaw, Poland. For a poster design for the...

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Press

Press

Zeit ist Relativ, Stuttgarter Zeitung 15 März 2014Photography 9/2010_Camera Obscura - das Projekt ist die Strasse

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Photography 1976-1981

Photography 1976-1981

Photography 1976-1981 I took these photographs in Poland between 1974 and 1981 with a Russian Zenit camera. I used most black and white negative film - Orwo Np 55 and developed it in Rodinal. Enlargements were printed on Polish photographic paper Fotonbrom.

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Edition – Weil der Stadt

Edition – Weil der Stadt

Edition - Weil der Stadt 100/2015   Exhibition opening: Thursday, 28 May at 5 pm in the Wendelinskapelle, Weil der Stad.Opening hours: Thu and Fri 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Sat and Sun 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Finissage with all the works created can be seen on 3 and 4 October...

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On the road with Camera Obscura

On the road with Camera Obscura

On the road with Camera Obscura The project is the road. 1998 until 2022. For over 20 years I wandered through the cities of Europe with a 2x2x2m "Black Box" and the simplest pinhole cameras. I placed the "Black Box" in public places, fairs or pedestrian zones. It was...

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camera obscura 2005/1-∞

camera obscura 2005/1-∞

Camera Obscura 2005/1-∞ is a worldwide project in which two holes of a twin-holed pinhole camera are being auctioned simultaneously on Ebay every week. This project is dedicated to the polish artist Roman Opalka and his work 1965/1-∞. The highest bidders in each case...

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TEDxStuttgart

TEDxStuttgart

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The world's first photograph will soon be 200 years old. Since then, photography has become increasingly complex. The photographer moves within the limits imposed by the...

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echoes of the past

echoes of the past

echoes of the past, moment, time passes, what was is no more, is silver* *ChatGPT:The phrase "echoes of the past, moment, time passes, what was no more, is silver" is a poetic fragment that suggests the passing of time and the impermanence of the past. It conveys the...

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Kinetic Art

Kinetic Art

Light sculpture “The Flying Arrow” Stuttgart – Harbour, 1996.Material: Copper, electric motors, light, fabric, film strips, projection wheelsIn the autumn of 1996, I used footage from photos I had taken with a Super 8 camera in 1993 for a light installation called...

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Silver

Silver

SilverLumen-Print, not fixed, original Agfa Brovira photo paper (30x 7,4x10,5cm), unique, 2023, Passepartout (60x80 cm). Wooden Frame, outer dimensions of the frame approx. 62,5 x 82,5 cm. State on 30 April 2023State on 20 May 2023

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Hawelka – Mirror of Time and Camera Obscura

Hawelka – Mirror of Time and Camera Obscura

Hawelka - Mirror of Time and Camera Obscura   "Miror of Timet" is the second album by Hawelka. You hear blues and polka, psychedelic and 60s - familiar ingredients, newly mixed. What does it sound like? Like a road trip to Eastern Europe, with Jim Morrison on the...

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Collage – small ticket hall, 2004

Collage – small ticket hall, 2004

Collage “Puzzle Kleine Schalterhalle" 2004, Stuttgart Main Station, 2004 On 10.06.2004, an aerial collage of the ticket hall was created from about 40 pictures taken "live" by free-floating cameras (exposure time approx. one hour). The resulting collage was auctioned...

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The Beautiful Simultaneity

The Beautiful Simultaneity

THE BEAUTIFUL SIMULTANEITY  ...in a dark roomstand 12 Camera Obscuraloaded with light-sensitive film.At15.10.1997at21:45:00an eye is light. 12 photographs are taken at the same time.1997, Size: 12x 42x59cm, Handmade paper with applied light-sensitive photo emulsion....

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Camera Obscura – Places of Translation, 2015

Camera Obscura – Places of Translation, 2015

Camera Obscura - Places of TranslationCamera Obscura - Places of Translation Translation Cube: Six Pages of European Literature and Translation Ljubljana, 15 - 18 April 2015 POETIC FRONTIERS Authors: Przemek Zajfert and participants of the international literature...

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