man made skies - Jochen Traar | Art Protects You

In this way the photographs and the vapor trails havea similar indexical relation to their “creators.” Moreover,both suggest an association with drawings. Drawing isinherent in the term “photography,” and particularly rightafter its invention photography was referred to as “thetruest drawing,” 2in fact one of the first publicationscontaining photographs was called “The Pencil of Nature”(Henry Fox Talbot, 1844–46). The lineament of the vaportrails, their arrangement and proportions also call tomind the term “drawing” to refer to this type of, albeit bycomparison very simple, placement of lines. In theirvariability man made skies are more like sketches with ahigher inclination towards the serial and processural,temporary sheets with ever-changing compositions.2Cf. Beaumont Newhall, Geschichte der Fotografie, Munich:Schirmer/Mosel, 1998, pp. 18–21. (English by the translator ofthis text)diese Sache fährtwir sind in der großen Gefahr