Josef Schulz

Josef Schulz is a Polish born, Düsseldorf based architecture photographer. His work brings an air of mystique and history to everyday, mundane man-made structures, while drawing out personality in each architectural subject. He uses digital manipulation to transform his original images, removing the typography from commercial signage surrounding, he transplants the urban architecture from its cluttered surroundings into bare backgrounds. In his series Übergang Josef travelled across Europe documenting abandoned military and national checkpoints, then manipulated the images after; blurring their backgrounds to remove them from their original context, giving them the appearance of being captured in a different era.
I find it interesting how Josef has used post-production to manipulate his images; the way that he blurs out the surroundings, and even places the main building/feature into an empty scene, thus acknowledging the subject for what it is rather than wanting to associate it fully with its surroundings, i like the way that this can suggest that it could have been captured in a different era. I hadn't thought about doing much manipulation on my photographs in photoshop but this opens up possibilities of how i could present my findings in my final images.



Sources:
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/josef-schulz-ubergang
http://www.josefschulz.de/html/formIndex.html