Eberhard Grames
(1953-)

Photographe Allemand, vit et travaille en Bretagne

Eberhard a fait des études d’ethnologie et d’histoire de l’art avant de travailler comme photographe indépendant. Depuis 1975, il parcourt tous les continents à la recherche des cultures en déclin. Il réalise surtout des natures mortes et des portraits en grands formats. Ses travaux sont exposés en Europe, aux Etats-Unis, au Japon et figurent dans de nombreuses collections privées et publiques. En 1991, ses portraits d’Europe de l’Est sur négatif 8×10 inch ont été exposés au Museum of Modern Art de New York.
Depuis 2005, Eberhard réalise ses œuvres avec des techniques de collage numérique.
Sélection d’ouvrages :
1984 American Nights (a neon adventure in US remote towns)
1988 Japanese Impressions (introducing Japan by its fundamental art work)
1991 Muschelherz und Finkenschlag (decadent still-lives on 8×10 inch)
1993 The Ballad of Rita Tushingham (an 8×10 inch reportage on youth and age)
1994 Wrecks and Other Beauties (Portraits and snow landscapes)
1995 Broken Spirits (Black and White still-lives on 8×10 inch)
2006 Lettres perdues (Collages from Brittany)
2008 La salle des mots perdus (the mystery of fetal human abnormity)
2012 White Hokkaido (snow images from Japanese island Hokkaido)
2013 Radio Songs (mystic collages on the wire)
2014 Mirror Works (recomposing personal travel souvenirs)
2015 Frozen minds (plastified moments betreen Shanghai and L.A.)

German Photographer,
lives and works in Brittany

Eberhard Grames, born 1953 in Germany, studied ethnology and art history before starting as a freelance photographer.
Since 1975 he’s travelled all continents in search of the strange and the ugly, and worked especially on dying cultures, still life and portraits. His work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA, Japan and is represented in private and public collections. In 1991, his portraits of Eastern Europe photographed on 8×10 inch negative had been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Since 2005 Grames has been working with various collage techniques.
Selected books :
1984 American Nights (a neon adventure in US remote towns)
1988 Japanese Impressions (introducing Japan by its fundamental art work)
1991 Muschelherz und Finkenschlag (decadent still-lives on 8×10 inch)
1993 The Ballad of Rita Tushingham (an 8×10 inch reportage on youth and age)
1994 Wrecks and Other Beauties (Portraits and snow landscapes)
1995 Broken Spirits (Black and White still-lives on 8×10 inch)
2006 Lettres perdues (Collages from Brittany)
2008 La salle des mots perdus (the mystery of fetal human abnormity)
2012 White Hokkaido (snow images from Japanese island Hokkaido)
2013 Radio Songs (mystic collages on the wire)
2014 Mirror Works (recomposing personal travel souvenirs)
2015 Frozen minds (plastified moments betreen Shanghai and L.A.)