Home » Member Page

Detlev Schilke Photographie

Over 30 years Jazz-Photography...

About Me

Jazz Calendiary 2007 – Detlev Schilke – Foreword by Wolf Kampmann (Translation Daniela Aue): Few photographers are gifted in teaching others the ability to listen through their pictures. Detlev Schilke´s photographs are singing. Not only because he takes pictures of music. Whenever he meets a musician with his camera he is not satisfied by just fixing his features. He is not just concerned about contrasts, contours, foreground or surrounding. Recognizability follows spontaneous arrangements. Detlev Schilke subordinates the laws of optics, he looks behind the subject matter, he triggers vibrations. His glissandi allow the eye to slip through a facade that seems to be impermeable. Details often say more than the whole. It could be a musician´s foot or a rolled up cable laying next to an instrument that captures Schilke´s attention and uncovers aspects of an artist that go far beyond a well done portrait. It is not necessary having experienced a certain musical moment. You can imagine it with the full power of all senses through Detlev Schilke. - Detlev Schilke not only taught me to trust my ear, but to talk about music without describing it analogously. His photos have let me to the insight that it is not the obvious that matters but what you discovers behind it. Penetrating the surface to catch the character of a certain sound. Not identifying of the individual expression of others, but meeting them with an equally individual attitude. Schilke´s visual magic is extremely emotional. He is intimate without denouncing, he tells stories and writes history. Each photo is the reflection of a moment, but with Detlev Schilke these moments are always to be understood as a particle of eternity.

My House Concert Story

Jass? Jasz? JAZZ! - Photographien von Detlev Schilke Experience tells us that music cannot be photographed. A photographer can show the musician's work with his instrument, on his idea of a tone. Provided he has the necessary sensitivity - and the will for perfection. This is exactly what Detlev Schilke brings together when he photographs jazz musicians. Wolf Kampmann speaks about the exhibition Afterwards, Detlev Schilke will give a lecture on his work as a photographer of the jazz scene, using many examples of images. The exhibition will be on view until November 30, 2022. —————————— Gerhart-Hauptmann-Museum Erkner Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. 1-2 D-15537 Erkner Germany