Man of Many Faces

When Martin Zurmühle photographs buildings or landscapes, the object is there, permanent and immobile. The perfect photograph appears by carefully selecting the best place to set the camera, creating the light or waiting for the light. The process is academic, mechanical.

WHEN Zurmühle shoots nudes, the process is intellectual: each shot shaped like a potter with clay, planned like an architect over his drawing board, and then created with the illusive element of chance.

A nude moves, lives and breathes. Each intake of breath, each impromptu flicker of the eyebrows, each subtle change of position will create something unforeseen: the photograph like the figure in the block of marble waiting to be discovered. The nude is life.

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Martin Zurmühle    Man of Many Faces  Click an image to enlarge