Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana Thanks to RVB Books (Paris)

Thanks to RVB Books (Paris)

using a large-format camera to take photographs of residential buildings

the most talented and the most intelligent

forging a thread of potential narrative

resulting in work that plays with texture and scale

Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana Thanks to RVB Books (Paris)The 179 passport photos in this book, taken between 1948 and 2012 and compiled by German artist Jens Klein, were included in scholarship applications submitted to the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e. V., a Protestant run scholarship program founded in Germany in 1948. They show a cross section of the 8,000 or so people the Studienwerk awarded grants to during this period; as well as how the medium of photography has changed over the years: from