Stojan Kerbler
Gospodinja / Housewife , 1978
srebroželatinasta fotografija / silver gelatin print
30 x 40 cm
odprta edicija / open edition
Serija: HALOŽANI / PEOPLE OF HALOZE
podpisana in datirana / signed and dated
For English version please scroll down. O SERIJI Stojan Kerbler je prvi fotograf, ki je prejel prestižno Prešernovo nagrado za življensko delo. Zaslužena nagrada je posvečena njegovemu več kot 60-letnemu...
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O SERIJI
Stojan Kerbler je prvi fotograf, ki je prejel prestižno Prešernovo nagrado za življensko delo. Zaslužena nagrada je posvečena njegovemu več kot 60-letnemu ustvarjanju na področju fotografije, ki je bilo mnogokrat nagrajeno tako doma kot v tujini. Že leta 1971 je prejel nagrado Zlata ptica, leta 1979 si je prislužil nagrado Prešernovega sklada, leta 2010 je prejel priznanje predsednika Republike Slovenije za vrhunske umetniške fotografske dosežke. Njegove fotografije se nahajajo v stalnih zbirkah muzejev po celem svetu, med drugim v fotografskih muzejih mest Charleroi, Pariz, Beograd, Dunaj in Rochester. Že praktično od svoje ustanovitve pa ga v slovenskem prostoru zastopa Galerija Fotografija.
Iz rodne Ptujske gore je postal najbolj prepoznaven po intimnih portretih Haloz, v katerih je beležil tok časa in skromna življenja kmečkih ljudi. V tem pa Kerbler ni le dokumentarni fotograf, saj s svojim izjemnim talentom za zajetje trenutkov miline, humorja ali bolečine izkazuje senzibilnost za človeška čustva, ki njegovo fotografijo dviga na raven umetniške. V vsakdanjih motivih kmečkega življenja je znal ujeti nekaj, kar sega izven vizualnega motiva, je globlje, človeško, ontološko. »Kerbler je nepretenciozno, s svojo skromnostjo, ljubeznijo in odgovornostjo do sočloveka postavil visoka meril čiste črno-bele analogne fotografije in vzpostavil referenčni okvir humanistične fotografske senzibilnosti in estetike tudi za prihodnje rodove. Njegov modus biti, čutiti, opazovati, ohranjati človekovo dostojanstvo in videti ter dokumentirati brez odvečnega moraliziranja, pa je neponovljiv in težko dosegljiv”, je v obrazložitvi nagrade zapisal fotograf Boris Gaberščik, tudi sam sopotnik Galerije Fotografije.
Njegove črno-bele fotografije nimajo le umetniške dimenzije, temveč nosijo velik etnografski pomen. So dokument podeželskega prebivalstva v šestdesetih in sedemdesetih letih, ko sta bili v nasprotju s poudarjanjem industrializacije in razvitosti Jugoslavije ruralni območji Haloz in Kozjanskega izpostavljeni hudi revščini in lakoti – obenem pa polni tradicijskih navad in običajev, ki so se ohranili tudi v Kerblerjevih posnetkih. A njegove fotografije so toliko bolj zanimive, ker ljudi ne upodablja od zunaj, kot tujec, ki bi s sociološkim interesom opazoval odmaknjeno pokrajino. Prav nasprotno – fotograf je bil eden izmed portretirancev, upodabljal je svoje ljudi in običaje, zato so njegova dela še toliko bolj polna razumevanja in tenkočutnosti.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Stojan Kerbler is the first photographer to have received the prestigious Prešeren Award for life achievement, the most important national award for art in Slovenia. The well-earned award is dedicated to his artistic practice in the field of photography, which has been awarded domestically and internationally throughout his 60-year career. He received the Golden bird award already in 1971, earned the Prešeren foundation award in 1979, received the award of the president of Slovenia for outstanding achievement in the field of artistic photography. His photographs can be found in museum collections all over the world, housed by museums in Charleroi, Paris, Belgrade, Vienna, and Rochester. In Slovenia, Kerbler has been represented by Galerija Fotografija practically since its formation.
Originally from Ptujska gora, he became recognizable for his intimate portraits of Haloze, where he was documenting the passing of time and the frugal lives of farmers. But in doing so he was not simply a documentary photographer – his extraordinary talent for capturing moments of grace, humour or pain shows a high sensibility for human emotion, which raises his practice to an artistic level. In the everyday motifs of rural life, he managed to capture something beyond the visual, which is deeper, more human, ontological. “Kerbler unpretentiously, with his modesty, love and responsibility to his fellow human being, raised the bar for pure black-and-white analogue photography, and established a reference frame of humanist photographic sensibility and aesthetic for future generations. His modus of being, feeling ,observing, retaining the human dignity and seeing and documenting without unnecessary moralising, is unique and difficult to attain”, wrote photographer Boris Gaberščik, himself an associate of Galerija Fotografija, in his explanation of the award.
His black-and-white photographs are not only artistic but carry enormous ethnographic value. They are a document of the rural people of the sixties and seventies when Yugoslavia was emphasizing its industrialisation and development. In contrast, agrarian areas of Haloze and Kozjansko were subject to poverty and famine, yet full of tradition and old customs, now preserved in Kerbler’s photographic material. His photographs are all the more interesting because he doesn’t depict people from the outside, as a foreigner observing with sociological interest. Quite the opposite – he is one of the subjects, depicting his own people and customs, which is why his works are even more filled with empathy and sensitivity.
O SERIJI
Stojan Kerbler je prvi fotograf, ki je prejel prestižno Prešernovo nagrado za življensko delo. Zaslužena nagrada je posvečena njegovemu več kot 60-letnemu ustvarjanju na področju fotografije, ki je bilo mnogokrat nagrajeno tako doma kot v tujini. Že leta 1971 je prejel nagrado Zlata ptica, leta 1979 si je prislužil nagrado Prešernovega sklada, leta 2010 je prejel priznanje predsednika Republike Slovenije za vrhunske umetniške fotografske dosežke. Njegove fotografije se nahajajo v stalnih zbirkah muzejev po celem svetu, med drugim v fotografskih muzejih mest Charleroi, Pariz, Beograd, Dunaj in Rochester. Že praktično od svoje ustanovitve pa ga v slovenskem prostoru zastopa Galerija Fotografija.
Iz rodne Ptujske gore je postal najbolj prepoznaven po intimnih portretih Haloz, v katerih je beležil tok časa in skromna življenja kmečkih ljudi. V tem pa Kerbler ni le dokumentarni fotograf, saj s svojim izjemnim talentom za zajetje trenutkov miline, humorja ali bolečine izkazuje senzibilnost za človeška čustva, ki njegovo fotografijo dviga na raven umetniške. V vsakdanjih motivih kmečkega življenja je znal ujeti nekaj, kar sega izven vizualnega motiva, je globlje, človeško, ontološko. »Kerbler je nepretenciozno, s svojo skromnostjo, ljubeznijo in odgovornostjo do sočloveka postavil visoka meril čiste črno-bele analogne fotografije in vzpostavil referenčni okvir humanistične fotografske senzibilnosti in estetike tudi za prihodnje rodove. Njegov modus biti, čutiti, opazovati, ohranjati človekovo dostojanstvo in videti ter dokumentirati brez odvečnega moraliziranja, pa je neponovljiv in težko dosegljiv”, je v obrazložitvi nagrade zapisal fotograf Boris Gaberščik, tudi sam sopotnik Galerije Fotografije.
Njegove črno-bele fotografije nimajo le umetniške dimenzije, temveč nosijo velik etnografski pomen. So dokument podeželskega prebivalstva v šestdesetih in sedemdesetih letih, ko sta bili v nasprotju s poudarjanjem industrializacije in razvitosti Jugoslavije ruralni območji Haloz in Kozjanskega izpostavljeni hudi revščini in lakoti – obenem pa polni tradicijskih navad in običajev, ki so se ohranili tudi v Kerblerjevih posnetkih. A njegove fotografije so toliko bolj zanimive, ker ljudi ne upodablja od zunaj, kot tujec, ki bi s sociološkim interesom opazoval odmaknjeno pokrajino. Prav nasprotno – fotograf je bil eden izmed portretirancev, upodabljal je svoje ljudi in običaje, zato so njegova dela še toliko bolj polna razumevanja in tenkočutnosti.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Stojan Kerbler is the first photographer to have received the prestigious Prešeren Award for life achievement, the most important national award for art in Slovenia. The well-earned award is dedicated to his artistic practice in the field of photography, which has been awarded domestically and internationally throughout his 60-year career. He received the Golden bird award already in 1971, earned the Prešeren foundation award in 1979, received the award of the president of Slovenia for outstanding achievement in the field of artistic photography. His photographs can be found in museum collections all over the world, housed by museums in Charleroi, Paris, Belgrade, Vienna, and Rochester. In Slovenia, Kerbler has been represented by Galerija Fotografija practically since its formation.
Originally from Ptujska gora, he became recognizable for his intimate portraits of Haloze, where he was documenting the passing of time and the frugal lives of farmers. But in doing so he was not simply a documentary photographer – his extraordinary talent for capturing moments of grace, humour or pain shows a high sensibility for human emotion, which raises his practice to an artistic level. In the everyday motifs of rural life, he managed to capture something beyond the visual, which is deeper, more human, ontological. “Kerbler unpretentiously, with his modesty, love and responsibility to his fellow human being, raised the bar for pure black-and-white analogue photography, and established a reference frame of humanist photographic sensibility and aesthetic for future generations. His modus of being, feeling ,observing, retaining the human dignity and seeing and documenting without unnecessary moralising, is unique and difficult to attain”, wrote photographer Boris Gaberščik, himself an associate of Galerija Fotografija, in his explanation of the award.
His black-and-white photographs are not only artistic but carry enormous ethnographic value. They are a document of the rural people of the sixties and seventies when Yugoslavia was emphasizing its industrialisation and development. In contrast, agrarian areas of Haloze and Kozjansko were subject to poverty and famine, yet full of tradition and old customs, now preserved in Kerbler’s photographic material. His photographs are all the more interesting because he doesn’t depict people from the outside, as a foreigner observing with sociological interest. Quite the opposite – he is one of the subjects, depicting his own people and customs, which is why his works are even more filled with empathy and sensitivity.
