This post picks up from this earlier one as it continues my exploration of contemporary German photography. Arwed Messmer. There is little commentary online in English on the internet.

This is large format work on a tripod that is designed to increase our sensitivity for those images which perhaps reveal themselves only on a second or third sighting. So we using the tripod as an ankle shackle, as it were, as we roam the city and develop a topographic theme-- a certain building, a defined site or a neighborhood.

However, there is an international art side to Messmer's work.

Arwed Messmer and German writer Annett Groschner have documented Bus Four’s in cities in Eastern Europe as part of a book project. They have also exhibited their documentation in installation formm within an exhibition space in collaboration with Argentine musician Emilio Miler to create BusLineStory, a visual-textual-musical installation based on Buenos Aries Bus number 4 in 2005. In this installation Messmer and Groschner created a bus with borrowed seats and windows, photographic projections of images taken on and along the bus route, writings about the bus’s history and route, and sounds taken from the bus.