Weekend Portfolio: Anton Kuehnhackl

Assimilated Family History

Jobsite Cleanup After Boss Leaves!

Son I Said Drywall Tape, Not Painters!

He Was Eatin Ice, He Was Eatin Rocks, Now He Stackin Blocks

Is This Wallpaper? Or Packaging?! Either Way, Peels Right Off!

Me Simple Man, I See Brick, I Stack

So You Went On Vacay, But Stayed In The Room!?

Monday’s Huh

Images and text by Anton Kuehnhackl

I am interested in questioning approaches towards photography, whether that's through presentation, how an image is constructed, or re-photography. I believe that for the medium to continue on, it needs to push ways of looking at and considering images; how they function in the 21st century.

These works ask if formal roles of photographs, as things that can only be displayed in rigid ways, are really working. Using the "Materiality" and "Object-ness" of photographs, its structure, to turn it into something new; outside of these constraints, asks even more impactful questions. In constructing physically and digitally, it obscures the overall truth of the image and focuses the viewer on specific parts.

It’s also just being curious about how something will look, the “phenomenology” of an image; taken out of its original context and displayed as something else. Opposed to some overarching grand meaning. One could say I'm trying to "reinvent the wheel", but all I'm asking is; why not multiple views of the same wheel? Is there even a "wheel" in the first place?