Krass Clement

Krass Clement ( born March 15, 1946 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish photographer.

Life

Krass Clement grew up in Copenhagen, the son of a painter and a pianist. He turned first to the film, made ​​short films and studied directing at the Danish Film School. Eventually, however, he joined his former photographic practice, which he had begun as a teenager on the occasion of city trips to Berlin, London and Paris. on the finally ruled in favor of photography. In 1978, Clements first photo book ( " Skygger af ojeblikke " instantaneous shadow ), which many others followed. Great attention was given his photo documentation of the rock festival Roskilde 2003. Krass Clement is one of the most important contemporary photographers in Denmark. In 1997 he received an applied lifetime fellowship from the Danish State Art Foundation, Statens Arts Foundation.

Work

Krass Clement photographed primarily urban spaces, streets, squares and city dwellers. Notably, he is dedicated to large urban dreariness and social peripheries of urban life - and thus possess aspect of social documentary photography. It produces photographic essays, which consist of individual sequences and recall the cinematic montage. Photographed Clemens for many years exclusively in black and white and used a miniature camera, he turned to after 2000 color photography and uses a medium format camera.

Photo books (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2003 Copenhagen, Fotografisk Center
• 2004 Toronto, Canada, Harbourfront Centre, The Photo Passage
• 2005 Copenhagen, Fotografisk Center
• 2007 Berlin, Galerie argus
• 2007 Cologne, Forum for Photography