Peter Keetman
Schallplatte

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Artist Peter Keetman(German, 1916–2005)German, 1916–2005

CultureGerman

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Schallplatte
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Date1936

PlaceGermany

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 11 7/16 in. (23.2 × 29.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (24.2 × 29.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.1407

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionA co-founder of Fotoform (with Otto Steinert and Toni Schneiders, among others)—a group of photographers who greatly impacted the development of postwar photography in Germany and abroad—Peter Keetman primarily worked as a freelance advertising photographer in the 1950s and is best-known for his photographic series on the making of Volkswagen Beetle cars. But, true to the Fotoform philosophy, he also embraced the aesthetics of the ‘Subjective Fotographie’ movement, which championed photographic images that often transformed their literal subject for the sake of visual satisfaction. Keetman created images of industrial objects and natural phenomena that invite the viewer to further interpret and reflect on the visual experience of looking at a photograph, as it differs from everyday vision.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil on lower right verso: P 8201003

Signed in pencil on lower right verso: Peter Keetman

Black artist's rectangular stamp on lower right corner verso: FOTOGRAF / PETER KEETMAN / PRIEN/CHIEMSEE / JENSENSTRASSE 11

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