from Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27 2. 2011
Roman Bucheli · meet Occasionally our pictures in which flashes up a piece of genuine memory, has persisted in that story without clouding the time: as the image of a past were calling alert, which has remained safe in it as a sensual experience. We are not different if we Today, some covers of appearing in seven decades cultural magazine look back "You: Some issues have become icons of their time. They themselves have written in the medium of painting history and also have the history preserved: not only as a visual impression. The past made present in these photographs for all the senses: We smell and taste the time, Louis Armstrong's trumpet was in December 2001 not to see on the cover of his hundredth birthday, was to hear them anyway. In the booklet to Tom Waits, we looked in a different America, and with the melancholy look Claude Simon, we came suddenly in the Flemish war hell.
celebrated the fiftieth year of its appearance, the cultural magazine "You in 1991 with a tribute to their first Chief Editor Arnold Kübler. Twenty years later and after some turmoil in the newsroom and in the owner stock the magazine celebrates again: your seventieth birthday she celebrates with a photographer René Burri devoted anniversary issue. A man may not be the very first hour, but is certainly Burr, the senior photographer of "You. In 1959 he first major report from South America appeared in the magazine "El gaucho" and since then his name is so inextricably connected with the magazine as with the photo agency Magnum, which he had become a member soon.
René Burri is one now of course to those photographers who have shaped our memories with pictures. The booklet shows some of these recordings. The most famous is without doubt the photograph of Che Guevara, in Havana in 1963: a casual, leaning back, a cigar in his mouth hanging down, the opposite of attention in the side covered View, is a mixture of condescension and distrust. The picture was famous, a different but leaves us once again look quite radically into the interior of man. It Alberto Giacometti shows in 1960 in his Paris studio, in a suit and tie, as always, he works on his ever-shrinking figures, his head but he thinks laterally inclined to the oversized eyelids convulsively closed, as he is blind and only trust the groping hands. The picture brought him to a limit, admits Burri. "I almost could not have done it. Giacometti lived as long as I have not been published. Why? I got as close as I would have anticipated the coming death. "
The pictures are not made in a separate chapter in this anniversary issue. Burrell describes the loss that missed, not the pictures taken. They are almost even more impressive than some of the better-known photographs. Because Burrell meticulously notes in words what the picture would have shown. It is a living story, in which the photographed is not more important than the photographer himself. The image is created and then with the language - and imagination.
That was "You" since its inception always both - Word and Image - obliged. It portrayed authors (the legendary magazine to Mayröcker and Jandl is), told stories from everyday life. The anniversary number is now bringing a preprint of Brigitte Kronauer's emerging new novel and a conversation with the author. Brigitte Kronauer put it a little plea for the complexity of their language: "The sentences are but a kind of resistance. In the German language is not the oversimplification, but the differential architecture significantly. I feel this is absolutely not a negative circumstances, but as something that reflects grammatically, the complexity of the situation is. This includes music from "Do not Just could be the program of the magazine you can be formulated". They also measured by the resistance with which we encounter the reality. And here musicality is not entirely excluded.
For several years, however, had to order the magazine "You're always a little fear and trembling: changed hands, editors came and went, and soon there were great books, sometimes you might not know where it is because her should go.
Since 2007, Oliver Prange, Director of Personal-publishing, the magazine has acquired seems to take the magazine back on track and to gain self-confidence. Boldly she sets priorities: In words and pictures, it proposes paths into the thicket of the present, she looks back and forward, it creates contrast and shows affinities, in short: it represents the time and her mind is a diagnosis by way of experiment, provocative, speculative, but always clear. And as you succeed still photographs which have what it takes to become permanent icons of their time.
«René Burri. Photographer and Collector of Worlds ". You. The cultural magazine. Anniversary Edition 70 years. Issue 814, March 2011. CHF 20 -.
Nota. are not the photos of this selection, all of you .
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