TGL is a series of photographs on the state standards of the former GDR. They show combinations of standard colors and standard parts of TGL (Technical Standards, Quality Specifications, and Delivery Conditions). Shot from the front, the colored industrial objects are portrayed against a neutral background.
In the planned economy of the GDR, industrial products were centrally standardized. The starting point of the research is a color register from 1977 from the estate of GDR designer Lutz Rudolph and contemporary TGL standard sheets. Based on these sources, the historical use of the state-prescribed colors is traced. Selected color tones are reconstructed as paint colors, applied to TGL-standard parts, and photographed. Painting and photographic staging remove the colors and objects from their industrial functional context and expose their historical layering.
In 1988, the NVA supplemented its traditional camouflage tone Olive green — adopted from the Wehrmacht — with two new colors, including Twilight gray 2403. This color was valid for only two years — it vanished with the state that prescribed it.
TGL is a series of photographs on the state standards of the former GDR. They show combinations of standard colors and standard parts of TGL (Technical Standards, Quality Specifications, and Delivery Conditions). Shot from the front, the colored industrial objects are portrayed against a neutral background.
In the planned economy of the GDR, industrial products were centrally standardized. The starting point of the research is a color register from 1977 from the estate of GDR designer Lutz Rudolph and contemporary TGL standard sheets.
