Michael Lange | German, 1953 -
Michael Lange is a self-taught photographer who has worked exclusively on his own projects for over two decades. Projects by Lange include the much exhibited and published Wald and Fluss.
Created along the Rhine River in South Germany, FLUSS explores the mystery and momentum of a landscape that interweaves dense thickets of forest, portentous currents and reflecting pools of illuminated imagery. As a whole the photographs depict the constant and subtle flow of the natural world and its sublime beauty.
WALD is the title and subject of another of Michael Lange's impressive bodies of work. Full of mystery and magic, these images were created over a period of three years as Lange wandered through Germany’s vast deciduous and coniferous forests, taking pictures with a sure sense of the places where childhood memories and sober documentations of nature blur. The mysterious photographs were taken off the beaten path, in the thickets and underbrush, at dusk or twilight. The finest of nuances, shadows, and color gradients create thickly atmospheric compositions of concentrated clarity, conveying an experience characterized by the German Romantic word Waldeinsamkeit (woodland solitude).
Lange’s work is in numerous private and corporate collections in both Germany and the U.S. His photographs have been exhibited extensively at art fairs, institutions and galleries. Monographs published on Lange’s work include: Wald (Hatje Cantz, 2012) and Fluss (forthcoming 2015, Hatje Cantz).
Michael Lange is a self-taught photographer who has worked exclusively on his own projects for over two decades. Projects by Lange include the much exhibited and published Wald and Fluss.
Created along the Rhine River in South Germany, FLUSS explores the mystery and momentum of a landscape that interweaves dense thickets of forest, portentous currents and reflecting pools of illuminated imagery. As a whole the photographs depict the constant and subtle flow of the natural world and its sublime beauty.
WALD is the title and subject of another of Michael Lange's impressive bodies of work. Full of mystery and magic, these images were created over a period of three years as Lange wandered through Germany’s vast deciduous and coniferous forests, taking pictures with a sure sense of the places where childhood memories and sober documentations of nature blur. The mysterious photographs were taken off the beaten path, in the thickets and underbrush, at dusk or twilight. The finest of nuances, shadows, and color gradients create thickly atmospheric compositions of concentrated clarity, conveying an experience characterized by the German Romantic word Waldeinsamkeit (woodland solitude).
Lange’s work is in numerous private and corporate collections in both Germany and the U.S. His photographs have been exhibited extensively at art fairs, institutions and galleries. Monographs published on Lange’s work include: Wald (Hatje Cantz, 2012) and Fluss (forthcoming 2015, Hatje Cantz).