Timm Rautert – photographer

Timm Rautert – photographer

“Photography introduced something into the world, and into the world of images, that was completely different from anything that had come before.”

“And then there is the appearance of reality in front of me. Indelible. Stored on the negative in the truest sense of the word: burned in. The appearance of something real is in front of me. And people say that’s how it was. But it wasn’t really like that at all.”

“You drag something out of the river of the past. If you photograph a person, let’s assume he is 36 years old and four months, he will always stay that old…that is a blessing and a curse.”

“The picture that belongs to the family. The album within the family. It was always horrible when you would show up somewhere on a Sunday, and the family albums would be hauled out, look at this, look at that… it was always tedious, but also wonderful.”