Klaus frahm biography
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Klaus Frahm German, b. 1953
GRAUZONE – GREY AREA
The term ‘Grey Area’ refers to an undefined situation or legally ambiguous zone, and also to the Zone System that Ansel Adams developed for measuring tonal ranges in analog black and white photography.
Klaus Frahm’s work from Grauzone – Grey Area (1981-1996) explores both of these possibilities.
Klaus Frahm is a German self-taught photographer who mostly focuses on architecture, often with political, ethical, or social subtexts.
The photographs, made in the tradition of large format film, celebrate the high art of photography through a patient analysis of Frahm's subject, "St. Pauli"; An old quarter of Hamburg commonly connected with the harbor and the red light district along the "Reeperbahn."
Years before starting his project in 1980, Frahm accompanied a friend who was in charge of an insurance company collecting monthly money for people's burials, a common practice at that time for poorer people.
The regular access to many different homes made a strong impression upon him and with this in mind, Frahm began to