• Klaus Frahm (photographer)

View of loosely piled bales of straw, Mainz, Germany

1979

- There are nine photographs by Klaus Frahm which show stacked bales of straw or "reet" in Hamburg, Germany (PH1985:0285, PH1985:0292, and PH1985:0294), Mainz, Germany (PH1985:0287 - PH1985:0290), Tirrenia, Italy (PH1985:0286) and Toscana, Italy (PH1985:0293). "Reet" is apparently a swamp grass or reed used for thatching roofs in northern Germany (see the photographer's inscription on photograph PH1985:0294). Four of the photographs show bales of straw or bundles of reet stacked in various ways (PH1985:0285, PH1985:0289, PH1985:0292, PH1985:0294). Photograph PH1985:0287 shows a stack of bales of straw covered in plastic. The remaining four photographs show bales of straw stacked in the form of houses (PH1985:0286, PH1985:0288, PH1985:0290, PH1985:0293).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 20.0 x 25.3 cm sheet: 30.4 x 36.4 cm

PH1985:0289

• exterior view

numbered, inscribed, dated and signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "450265"; l.l. to l.c.: "Old Straw Mainz, 1979"; and l.r.: "Klaus Frahm / 1985" inscribed - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "SU"; and l.r.: "C"

Mainz; Germany;

• topographique

• straw (plant material)
• bales

© Klaus Frahm, 1985