This project is the first collaboration with Peter Malutzki. In front of the camera fixed on a tripod, Malutzki moves against a light-colored background, holding a two-meter-long pole. The time exposure causes the movements of the pole and the actor to accumulate within the space. Next, 18 photographs are chosen and compiled into a sequence, which is used in two accordions.

Leporello 1

Ines von Ketelhodt typographically overprints this photo sequence with an excerpt from Joachim Schumacher’s text “Leicht ’gen Morgen unterwegs. Eine Philosophische Reise” [Traveling Light Toward the Morning: A Philosophical Journey]. The text, following the theme of lines/poles, is broken down into lines, words and sometimes even single letters, and is staged within the frame of the image on each page.

Leporello 2

Peter Malutzki overprints the same photo sequence using brass rules with multiple colors. Some of the overprinted sequences extend across several double-page spreads. A quotation from the text “Natürliches Zauber-Buch. Oder: Neu-eröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste” from 1745 [A Book of Natural Magic. Or: A Newly Opened Play-Ground for Rare Arts] precedes the images as a motto.

18 black and white photographs offset printed, hand-set (Bauer Bodoni, Futura), letterpress printed, Zerkall mould-made paper, double-sided accordion, printed paper-covered boards, each 36 pages, 15 × 20 cm (extends out to 270 × 20 cm), each 60 numbered and signed copies, Offenbach/Main & Lahnstein 1989

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