Jazz­Bal­lade – a pho­to­gra­phic narrative

“The pho­to­gra­pher has to take life by sur­prise when he gets out of bed. Pho­to­gra­phy by no means stops life, but sur­pri­ses it in its moments of hig­hest den­sity or rather ease, because it‘s not about cap­tu­ring meaning-saturated sce­nes, over­loa­ded with mes­sa­ges. Life tou­ches and pas­ses by. To catch it, the pho­to­gra­pher has to sub­mit to this law.…” (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
This thought is also the pho­to­graphs of Vin­zenz Löff­ler com­mit­ted. The “Sketch­book” to be viewed on the artist’s home­page pro­vi­des an insight into his work and the pho­tos of “Jazz­Bal­lade”, which will be pre­sen­ted in the gal­lery for Con­tem­porary Pho­to­gra­phy for one week from 5 Novem­ber 2019. A “pho­to­gra­phic nar­ra­tive” that accom­pa­nies a jazz musi­cian in his ever­y­day life, inclu­ding his thoughts and lon­gings – Vin­zenz Löff­ler had been thin­king of this idea for many years and finally rea­li­zed it toge­ther with the Munich aut­hor Sebas­tian Fle­cker, who brought the figure of jazz pia­nist Blum in his texts to life.
In impres­si­ons and high­lights, pho­to­gra­pher and aut­hor immerse them­sel­ves in Blum’s musi­cal and melan­cho­lic world. Blum ima­gi­nes him­self happy in his modest musi­cal life, but incre­a­sin­gly falls for his past love. Sebas­tian Flecker’s cau­tious texts fill moods with life. Deli­ca­tely, he feels lone­liness and hear­t­a­che, in con­junc­tion with Vin­cent Löffler’s pho­to­graphs he expe­ri­en­ces quiet hap­pi­ness and dece­le­ra­tion. Eight colo­red con­cert impres­si­ons com­plete around fifty black-and-white pho­to­graphs and thus stand for the splas­hes of color – not only in the photo book, but also in Blum’s ever­y­day life. Can a good life be a failure?

Vin­zenz Löff­ler, born 1968 in Hano­ver, lives and works in Munich. He has been invol­ved with pho­to­gra­phy and lite­ra­ture since his youth. A solo exhi­bi­tion in the “Faust” in Hano­ver.
Sebas­tian Fle­cker is a native of Munich. His great pas­si­ons are music and lite­ra­ture – both com­bine regu­larly in his sto­ries. Always on the look­out for new lin­gu­is­tic com­po­si­ti­ons and excit­ing topics, he likes to expe­ri­ment in dif­fe­rent gen­res. Jazz­Bal­lade is his first release. In 2014, he co-founded the aut­hor collec­tive “AgAti”, whose first joint short story volume “Lost in Ever­y­day Life” will be publis­hed in fall 2019.