Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana Subtly involved in every aspect

Subtly involved in every aspect of culture

these drawings activate an awareness of time

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

carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century

Thanks to RVB Books (Paris)

Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana Subtly involved in every aspectThe 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