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19 Glasplatten begrenzen den Innenhof von Haus 3 des Jakob Kaiser Hauses, benannt nach dem Politiker Jakob Kaiser, zur Spree hin. Sie wurden in den 90er Jahren von Dani Karavan gestaltet. Auf ihnen befinden sich die ersten 19 Artikel des Grundgesetzes für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, welche am 24.05.1949 inkraft traten. Nach der Wiedervereinigung am 03.10.1990 galten diese Grundrechte für das gesamte deutsche Volk.
19 glass plates limit the courtyard of House 3 of the Jakob Kaiser building, named after the politician Jakob Kaiser, towards the Spree. They were created in the 90s by Dani Karavan. On them are the first 19 articles of the Basic Law for the Republic of Germany, which came into force at the 24.05.1949. After the reunification at the 03.10.1990 these basic rights were applied for the whole German nation.
Artikel 1
(1) Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt.
(2) Das Deutsche Volk bekennt sich darum zu unverletzlichen und unveräußerlichen Menschenrechten als Grundlage jeder menschlichen Gemeinschaft, des Friedens und der Gerechtigkeit in der Welt.
(3) Die nachfolgenden Grundrechte binden Gesetzgebung, vollziehende Gewalt und Rechtsprechung als unmittelbar geltendes Recht.
article 1
(1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
(2) The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.
(3) The following basic rights shall bind the legislature, the executive and the judiciary as directly applicable law.
(The correctly englisch translation is taken from the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.)
The photo was taken with a Holga 120 CN and a Agfa Optima 100-Y. The use-by date stamp from the film was August 2007. A special from this model is the flashlight with colored interlayers. This is a multi exposure on a sunny day without the flash. You get this effect, if you take more than one shots of the same film section. If you don’t put back the the frame size mask which comes over the battery compartments, the batteries fall into the camera box.The red coloured gradient was created by the reflection of light when pressing the shutter button, which met on the two red AA batteries.
The Holga is an analog medium format camera, which was developed in the beginning of the 80s in Hong Kong. It is a simple plastic camera with an untempered meniscus lens. Meniscus lenses were already used in camera obscuras. The Holga has a 60 mm prime lense. The camera was marked for less money for everybody. Holga photos have characteristical features, which shall be deemed as errors in the classical photography. Some features are: - deformations - aberations - unexpected incidences of light (the camera body is not tight, some day was black tape attached to the camera buy) - double exposures - if you have taped the body, it is difficult to control the film transport - blurring or fuzziness because of incorrect exposures, incorrect selected distances or the quality of the lense like the Lomo became the Holga a completely cult status. Today you can buy Holga objektives for digital cameras or you can find similar features in the Nik Collection (a plug-in for Photoshop).
