Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer (13 February 1941 - 10 June 2010). He was an artist who experimented with a variety of styles, subjects and materials. In the 1970s he focused on photography and then concentrated on painting 10 years later. The New York Observer once said: 'Polke used his camera like a sketchbook; and he treated his photos like paintings, experimenting with, altering or deliberately bungling the development process to create unusual visual effects. Most of his prints are creased and stained. Everything seems unfinished - not in the sense of lacking anything, but in the sense of still being in play'.
I don't think that this experimentation has any meaning as it seems that Sigmar Polke has intentionally made it look abstract, which is the purpose of placing different materials onto the photo paper during exposure. Although the picture has no meaning, it clearly has been planned as there are different materials of different textures that has been placed certain places of the paper.
This experiment has been done by using an SLR camera to take the photographs as well as a darkroom to experiment different techniques; materials and exposures.
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