Manfred Hamm. Tempus Fugit
9 March to 14 April 2018 ⟶ Corneliusstraße
Exhibition View
Exhibition View
Tucson/Arizona, Davis-Monthan-Air Base, 1979-80, b/w photograph, 30 x 40 cm, unique piece
Tucson/Arizona, Davis-Monthan-Air Base, 1979-80, b/w photograph, 30 x 40 cm, unique piece
Sartis Shaft Clothing Hall, Hensies-Pommeroeue, Belgium 1983, colour photograph, ed. I/III, 178 x 146 cm
Sartis Shaft Clothing Hall, Hensies-Pommeroeue, Belgium 1983, colour photograph, ed. I/III, 178 x 146 cm
Partial view of the exhibition
Partial view of the exhibition
Blast furnaces Völklingen 1988, b/w photograph, Ed. V, 28 x 57 cm
Blast furnaces Völklingen 1988, b/w photograph, Ed. V, 28 x 57 cm
Wage hall, Rheinpreußen IV Colliery, Moers 1992, colour photograph, unique specimen, 100 x 100 cm
Wage hall, Rheinpreußen IV Colliery, Moers 1992, colour photograph, unique specimen, 100 x 100 cm
Partial view of the exhibition
Partial view of the exhibition
Cardiff Stock Exchange (Coal Exchange) 2006, b/w photograph, Ed. I/III, 110 x 87,2 cm
Cardiff Stock Exchange (Coal Exchange) 2006, b/w photograph, Ed. I/III, 110 x 87,2 cm
Partial view of the exhibition
Partial view of the exhibition
Cape Canaveral, 1979
9 landscape and 2 portrait photos in b/w, each 30 x 40 cm and 40 x 30 cm respectively
9 landscape and 2 portrait photos in b/w, each 30 x 40 cm and 40 x 30 cm respectively
Cape Canaveral, 1979
9 landscape and 2 portrait photos in b/w, each 30 x 40 cm and 40 x 30 cm respectively
9 landscape and 2 portrait photos in b/w, each 30 x 40 cm and 40 x 30 cm respectively
Stanley Mill, Stroud 1986, colour photograph, ed. II/III, 140 x 110 cm
Stanley Mill, Stroud 1986, colour photograph, ed. II/III, 140 x 110 cm
Partial view of the exhibition
Partial view of the exhibition
Leipzig Central Station 1983, colour photograph, ed. II/III, 178 x 251 cm
Leipzig Central Station 1983, colour photograph, ed. II/III, 178 x 251 cm
Partial view of the exhibition
Partial view of the exhibition
Cologne Central Station 1984, colour photograph, unique piece, 200 x 144 cm
Cologne Central Station 1984, colour photograph, unique piece, 200 x 144 cm
left: Barry Dock, Locomotive scrapyard 1980, b/w photograph, unique specimen, 30 x 40 cm
right: Barry Dock, Locomotive scrapyard 1980, b/w photograph, unique piece, 30 x 40 cm
right: Barry Dock, Locomotive scrapyard 1980, b/w photograph, unique piece, 30 x 40 cm
left: Barry Dock, Locomotive scrapyard 1980, b/w photograph, unique specimen, 30 x 40 cm
right: Barry Dock, Locomotive scrapyard 1980, b/w photograph, unique piece, 30 x 40 cm
right: Barry Dock, Locomotive scrapyard 1980, b/w photograph, unique piece, 30 x 40 cm
Atlantic Wall, Normandy 6 versch. Bunker motifs, 1979, b/w photograph, unique piece, 70 x 100 cm (SOLD)
Atlantic Wall, Normandy 6 versch. Bunker motifs, 1979, b/w photograph, unique piece, 70 x 100 cm (SOLD)
View from the roof of the Science Centre Berlin 2000, b/w photograph, Ed. III/III, 42 x 56 cm
View from the roof of the Science Centre Berlin 2000, b/w photograph, Ed. III/III, 42 x 56 cm
In the exhibition "Tempus Fugit", Manfred Hamm shows photographs taken between 1979 and 2006 during his extensive travels to numerous countries in Europe and the USA to document the ruins of the industrial age. He photographed disused production and extraction sites, decommissioned power stations, empty machine shops and dilapidated factory buildings from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but also bunkers and command posts from the Second World War on the Atlantic or the abandoned sites of American space programmes. The resulting series of black-and-white photographs impressively demonstrates that at the end of the industrial age, its temples were already in ruins or at least had lost their purpose. The deep irritation that Hamm's images of a vanished culture create in the viewer is, for him, striking evidence in this context of the rapidly accelerating change in the times in which we live.