Who is Beate Gütschow ?

                                              

Beate Gütschow
 

Born 1970 in Mainz, Germany, Beate works as a contemporary German photographer in Berlin and Cologne. Gütschow studied art at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg from 1993 to 2000. She served as guest professor from 2009-2010 at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Since 2011 she is a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Gütschow’s work explores the relationship between photographic representation and reality. It also investigates how our visual perception is informed and influenced by prior knowledge of other images.

  

These are some of her industrial street photography;

By controlling the light, Beate has subdue distracting elements in the scene to give more emphasis to the main points of interest. Gutschow has used light and shadows that can be used in composition to create mood, to draw attention to an area, to modify or distort shape, or to bring out form and texture in the subject. Beate is famous for differences between what's reality and what is false. Without shadows, the subject records without form, curvature, or texture, appearing flat and lifeless. I notice that she uses a theme; of lines, where everything is perfectly straight and neat in her photography. Her Images also contain a theme of isolation or emptyness, containing no or few people. It has an apocolyptic feel to her work, maby to emphasis the subjects and moods more. I think her photography is made to look like toys or building blocks rather than real life, due to perfectly timed photographing.