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The great German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch was a contemporary of Moholy-Nagy and Brecht and a close friend of Hermann Hesse, yet his work is little known in the English-speaking world. Born in Wurzburg in 1897, Renger-Patzsch was a member of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"). His most famous book Die Welt ist schon (The World is Beautiful), published in 1928, immediately established him as one of the leading photographers in Germany. This volume brings together sixty-five of Renger-Patzsch's photographs, many of them never before published. Together they help trace the life, career, and influence of one of the century's most important photographers, and will be an essential resource for scholars, social historians, and students of photography.
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Renger-Patzsch spent a lifetime photographing 'things' and imbued them with a vibrating, sometimes disturbing, life."--"ARTnews"
"There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement." --Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Joy Before the Object, 1928"
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"There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement." --Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Joy Before the Object, 1928"
This is a study of the work of the influential German photographer, Albert Renger-Patzsch, who is considered by many to be the father of modern European photography. Amidst the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in 1920s Germany, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined. A new aesthetic burst forth, expressed through the glass and steel of the Bauhaus, in the graphics used by the new advertising agencies, on artists' easels, and in the theatre. Chief among these innovators whose work would alter the way we perceive reality was Albert Renger-Patzsch. Albert Renger-Patzsch was born in 1897 in Wurzburg, Germany, and began taking photographs at the age of 12. In 1922 he became the director of the picture department of the Folkwang Archive and the Auriga Publishing House, where he collaborated on the book "The World of Plants". He moved to Essen in 1928 and become a photography teacher, but quit after a year due to political differences. After World War II he devoted most of this time to landscape photography.
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- PublisherAperture
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0893815306
- ISBN 13 9780893815301
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages80
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