SUPER 8 features a stylized Super 8 camera in blue tones—clean lines, retro flair of the ’60s/’70s. Buy direct: Hahnemühle Fine Art, Alu-Dibond, white wooden frame with shadow gap.
SUPER 8 features a stylized Super 8 camera in blue tones—clean lines, retro flair of the ’60s/’70s. Buy direct: Hahnemühle Fine Art, Alu-Dibond, white wooden frame with shadow gap.

SUPER 8

“SUPER 8” A symbol of pri­vate film his­to­ry: the styl­ized depic­tion of a Super 8 camera recalls the era of the 1960s and 1970s, when moving images found their way into many living rooms. Clean lines, fine hatch­ing, and struc­tured blue-toned sur­faces high­light the device’s tech­ni­cal ele­gance. The work cap­tures the spirit of a time when film­ing was not only about doc­u­men­ta­tion but also became a cre­ative, per­son­al pas­sion, a trib­ute to analog sto­ries on cel­lu­loid. “SUPER 8” is part of the art series “Blue in a Square”, which includes 300+ artworks.

When pic­tures learned to move.

Until the early 1970s, moving images belonged pre­dom­i­nant­ly to the film indus­try, the world of cinema. As soon as images start­ed to move, things became expen­sive, com­pli­cat­ed, and elab­o­rate: film reels, film cam­eras, film devel­op­ing, film pro­jec­tors, and so on. With the Super 8 camera, these limits were broken for the first time. Sud­den­ly, a great many people were able to cap­ture moving and moving in every sense, images them­selves, if only for short moments. This led to an art form of its own.

Many iden­ti­fied so strong­ly with this new ele­ment of film that a com­plete­ly new species of film­mak­ers emerged from it. For many later suc­cess­ful direc­tors, the first step into the world of film was the Super 8 camera. But for many more, it was also an intel­lec­tu­al status symbol, a way to rise above plain old pho­tog­ra­phy. Those who showed hol­i­day films, wed­ding films, travel films, and all other kinds of films enjoyed great cre­ative and social esteem. The slide carousel and the hol­i­day photos simply couldn’t keep up any­more. The stag­ing of a film evening in the neigh­bour­hood had many par­al­lels to a trip to the cinema and when it came to food and drink, there was con­sid­er­ably more on offer.

The art­work “Super 8” can be pur­chased via the Art Store on my web­site. Simply fill in the online form or send an email. I will then prompt­ly take care of your order and send back a detailed writ­ten quote, includ­ing a pos­si­ble deliv­ery date.

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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