Albert Renger-Patzsch Photographer of Objectivity

Name: Albert Renger-Patzsch Photographer of Objectivity
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ISBN: 9780262181891

ISBN-10: 0262181894

ISBN-13: 9780262181891

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Authors: Ann Wilde, Jï¿½rgen Wilde, Thomas Weski, Thomas Janzon

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with text by Thomas Janzon Albert Renger-Patzsch, together with August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt, was one of the undisputed pioneers of twentieth-century German photography. Indeed, what Sander achieved in portrait photography and Blossfeldt in plant photography, Renger-Patzsch achieved in his renderings of objects and the material world. As a protagonist of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit(New Objectivity), he wanted to record, phenomenologically as it were, the exact appearance of objects -- their form, material, and surface. Thus he rejected any kind of artistic claim for himself. Believing that the photographer should strive to capture the "essence of the…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/15/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Ann Wilde is curator of the Karl Blossfeldt Archive.



Photographing the 'Essence of Things'



Plates


Goals



Masters of the Camera Report



A Lecture That Was Never Given



A Short Biography



Bibliography