Peter keetman photographer biography sample

What photography reveals to me are laws and beauty. The deeper I dive into the matter, the bigger worlds open up.

 Peter Keetman

The work of Peter Keetman () occupies a central place in post-war German photographic modernism.

As the title of the retrospective Gestaltete Welt expresses, it brings together two central currents. On the one hand, the modernist will to form, to design, to experiment and to abstraction; on the other hand, a humanistic reference to the world and a turn to reconstruction, to the city, to nature, right down to its elementary building blocks.

Two currents that flow smoothly into one another in Keetman's work.

Inseparably linked to Keetman's photography and biography, however, are German history and the Second World War, from which Keetman returned as an invalid.

At the end of the s, Keetman was one of the young savages of the fotoform group, who, inspired by the experiments of the pre-war avant-gardes, wanted to develop a