Einmetersechzig Wien (in English: One meter sixty, Vienna) is a photographic
piece of work which consists of 21 dice generated random photographs as well
as documentary material (photographs and videos) about how the images were
produced.
Several weeks or months before taking the random photographs, all important
factors of each image were defined by throwing a dice 27 times:
- A position in the city of Vienna, with accuracy of one meter
- Date and time within a predefined range of time (May 8th - 13th 2006),
with accuracy of one second - Direction of the camera
- Tilt of the camera
- F-Stop
- Exposure Time
- Focusing Distance
These 27 dice-numbers could almost be seen as a latent photograph.
The aim was to create a framework, which theoretically includes all photographs
which could have been taken in Vienna between the 8th and the 13th of May.
However, for technical reasons some factors needed to be predefined – the height
of the camera was set to 1.60 meters, the camera to be used was a Yashica
twin-lens 6x6 and the type of film was Fuji Provia 100 slide film.
Different people threw the dice for a total of 73 images, which in the end resulted
in 21 random photographs. Only about every third photograph was possible to take.
The other two thirds could not be taken, e.g. because the position was unacessible
or the time to take a picture overlapped with another one.
There is also documentary material on how the images were produced. There are
videos of different people throwing the dice, of how the exact position in Vienna is
searched for on a very detailed map using a computer and of how the random
photographs are taken. Furthermore, there are 73 research photographs which
show all the locations in Vienna with red marks for the camera position.
In the following some examples (click series of numbers): 4 6 2 3 6 2 2 3 5 5 2 5 2 3 1 3 1 3 2 1 5 4 3 4 5 2 1 6 4 5 5 5 3 1 6 6 4 2 2 5 5 1 5 5 4 6 2 6 3 5 2 1 6 6 5 5 6 6 5 4 5 4 4 1 2 6 2 4 1 6 3 3 4 2 2 2 6 3 1 3 3 4 6 4 6 1 4 4 5 6 2 6 2 1 6 2 2 3 4 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 5 2 5 2 6 5 6 1 5 5 3 5 1 6 1 4 5 3 1 2 2 4 4 6 6 6 5 1 2 4 6 3 3 6 4 4 6 6 4 5 6 2 2 6 6 4 1 6 3 3 3 1 2 4 2 5 | 
