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Photography made by systematic, rule-based procedures. Gottfried Jäger introduced the term at a 1968 exhibition in Bielefeld, following Max Bense's generative aesthetics.
Decisive for my path toward photographic art, however, was the exhibition Generative Photography, which I myself conceived and installed in 1968 at the Kunsthaus Bielefeld. It became a signal for concrete-constructive, serial photographic work and brought together my pinhole-aperture structures with Cordier’s chemigrams, Kilian Breier’s luminograms and Hein Gravenhorst’s photomechanical transformations.
Gottfried Jäger, Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being
At the time, it was a new approach: Generative Photography as the visible expression of an exact, mathematically and natural-scientifically grounded aesthetic using photographic means.
Gottfried Jäger, Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being