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Published: 2004-09-01 19:59:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 13100; Favourites: 537; Downloads: 1794
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Unusual portrait of an unusal musician - Klaus der Geiger .Lott Festival 2004
The cult figure of Cologne's street musicians still shows us, that critical amusement is still possible. His texts are nothing for the ears of good citizens and quite nothing for the authority. He opens his mouth desire-fully and hilariously (and barefoot) to important themes of our time, although he sometimes 'burned' himself.... In addition to that the former pupil of Kagel- and Stockhausen works wildly, unorthodox and virtuos on his violin.
update: finally a good scan
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Nikon F80 + 80-200mm/2.8, Ilford HP5+ @ 800 ASA, developed in Ilford DD-X
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Comments: 273
an amazing man this picture truly does him justice
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"His texts are nothing for the ears of good citizens and quite nothing for the authority. He opens his mouth desire-fully and hilariously (and barefoot) to important themes of our time..."
Sounds like a person who speaks my own heart.
Beautiful photography, and I'm a sucker for black and white at that. I love the perspective and focusing, although the hands and violins have more detail, I still see his face. It's like the two are complimentary colours -- they stand each other out.
Beautiful
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I love this photo!
You are really talented!
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Andreas
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i have a picture that looks quite the same. my character is also a street musician and he can be found almost every day in the historical part of Bucharest, singing so that he can afford something to eat.
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great job...it just brings the music to you...fav
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i added this shot as a favourite quite a while ago. every time it pops up on my random list, i gasp and re-live what an amazing shot it is.
not many pictures do that to me.
if you EVER decide to sell prints of this, please let me kow!
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Thank you very much
There would be a print if dA's print submission process would have worked. 
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i love the dof in this one. you can still see that his face is full of character. really nice. thanks for sharing.
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I love how the face is out of focus so you really zone in onto the violin.
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this is really a good picture. i like the composition.
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hammer portrait vom interessanten klaus dem geiger. ^^
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haha sorry for the random question, my friend was like HES MEXICAN HES MEXICAN
and now my friend owes me a doller because hes not.
haha.
great focus too btw<3
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no 
thank you!
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i wish the details on the head of the violin is seen as well,though i like it
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I love this photo. So much. Great idea with the focus (as countless others have told you) for really it is the hands that work the violin, so in my opinion they should be the center of attention. putting them slightly off to the side also helps the eye move across the picture a lot easier than it would had you put them in the center so great choice there too 
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ok i think i commented befrore but i still love it...a lot
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would have given more space to the bottom to reveal more of his neck.
still a fav though. nice work!
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next time I'll try to think on that, hopefully I'll be not as drunken as I was when I took that photo... (was on a festival 
thank you very much!
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my eyes when straight to this image while looking in your gallery i like the focusing and the subject
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great shot. I love his wild hair, and the grainy quality. Seems to be a black n white image scanned in colour though - something going on beyond black and white.
I'd love to see this with darker levels and higher contrast.
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thank you very much
I really have to scan the neg on a serious scanner again
but with some luck my university will have some kick ass Nikon 9000 soon
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great depth and perspective! the soft grayscale really works with the angle. great capture
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I love it. But I'm partial to violins.
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