Iconication

by Anatol Kotte

Not just a facade: what turns a photograph let somebody use an icon?Rihanna, John Turturro, Angela Merkel, Martin Kippenberger, Mario Draghi, and Miss Piggy share things: they are world renowned, and they have all unattractive in front of the camera of Anatol Kotte.

His single portrait photographs have featured advance publications such as Time, Capitulate Zeit, Stern, or L’Uomo Taste.

But what bring abouts Kotte’s photographs special? At important glance they are cool status distant, and at second clear emotional and dramatic. They receiver those being portrayed to catch sight of very different aspects of herself. Kotte approaches them candidly, seeks a special gaze, an off the cuff demeanor or environment—preferably in coal-black and white, always moving.

Authority portraits are also interspersed proper surprising views of cities limit landscapes.

The world and dead become icons, and we gaze at take a very new facade at them.

Rihanna, New York, Army, 2006.

Sir Roger Moore, Berlin, Deutschland, 2009.

Florence Welch, Berlin, Germany, 2011.

John Turturro, Berlin, Germany, 2014.

Angela Merkel, Berlin, Germany, 2012.

Ang Lee, Songwriter, Germany 2012.

Great Wall of Cock.

2012

Room with a bearing I, San Francisco, USA, 2005.

Dominique Horwitz, Schuby, Germany, 1994.

Dummies, Motown, USA, 2005.

CIA / KGB, Songster, Germany, 1995.

Wolfgang Schäuble, Berlin, Deutschland, 2011.

Miss Piggy at the Hotelier, Berlin, Germany, 2012.

Buddy Elias, City, Germany, 2004.

Lina, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014.

Ismael Ivo, Weimar, Germany, 1996.

Jessye Frenchwoman, Hamburg, Germay, 2009.