Patrick Lakey: German Photographs (1724—2005)

Triptych: Schiller: Schiller's Garden House, Jena, Germany, II
Fichte: Fichte's House, Jena, Germany, II
Nietzsche: Nietzsche's House, Sils-Maria, Switzerland, III, 2004
Color coupler print, 20" x 24", edition of 5 / 1 AP


Triptych: Nietzsche: Lake Silverplana, Surlej, Switzerland, IV
Marx: Reading Room, Great Hall, British Museum, London, II
Heidegger: Todtnauberg, Black Forest, Germany, III, 2004
Color coupler print, 20" x 24", edition of 5 / 1 AP


Goethe: Goethe's Garden House, Jena, Germany, II, 2004,
Color coupler print, 60 1/4" x 74 7/8", edition of 5 / 1 AP

According to Lakey, “the idea is to make photographs of the environment where they (the philosophers) worked, to look at their surroundings, to see what they saw… Each photograph asks what the specificity of a place (that a particular person was there at a particular time in relation to a particular kind of practice) may mean.”