Heinrich Riebesehl – People in the Elevator MER Paper Kunsthalle Fiona Liewehr

Fiona Liewehr

MoMA PS1 in New York

scratched up document that shows visible signs of age and neglect but perhaps this is the one absolute inevitability of history and memory – it’s always going to be fragmentary

Hugo Roelandt (1950–2015) was a pioneering photographer

Heinrich Riebesehl – People in the Elevator MER Paper Kunsthalle Fiona LiewehrOn 20 November 1969 Heinrich Riebesehl goes to the premises of the Neue Hannoversche Presse. He intends to take photographs in the elevator, pointing his more or less concealed camera at the people he encounters there. The situation and set up have rigidly defined parameters: a small space whose layout is virtually square, illuminated by cool ceiling lights, and a small format camera equipped with a wide angle lens and cable release. The whole shoot