Mr. Music
Jim Rakete (born 1951) is as influential in the German music scene as he is with his photograpy. Starting with Photography as young as 4 years old, and working professionally at the early age of 17 for magazines such as
Rolling Stones, he was running a photography agency in Berlin 1977 - 1987 he was in the epicentre of the upcoming
Neue Deutsche Welle (at that time a revolutionary way to perform German music in German) portraying many of its musicians and later managing them (who doesn't remember Nena's
99 Red Balloons?) He concentrated on photography again and refuses to date to work digitally because for him enhancing and photoshopping pictures corrupts the integrity of the medium plus he doesn't want to loose his darkroom skills. He mainly works with medium format cameras and also occasionally large format cameras. In 2009 he worked on a portraits of German celebrities and strictly used a shutter speed on 1/8 sec. Here are some samples of that project:
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| Jim Rakete, Selfportrait |
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| Markus Luepertz, Painter |
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| Nicolai Valuev, Boxer |
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| Juergen Vogel, Actor |
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| Christiane Paul, Actress |
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| Jana Pallaske, Actress |
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