The German Work
Moving, insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hoppé’s German work has been unknown until now. This volume combines photographs published in Hoppé’s legendary book of 1930, Deutsche Arbeit, with many new pictures never previously seen. From factory floor to the commuters of Berlin and Munich, Hoppé’s photographs reveal the profound social and economic tensions that preceded the Second World War.
This publication uncovers Hoppé as a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary photographic practice. Hoppé used his experience in Germany to develop a modern new style of photography—showing not just how things looked, but how it felt to be there.
"How could such a dominant, respected and valued figure simply disappear, virtually overlooked by history?" Urs Stahel
Emil Otto Hoppé was born in Munich in 1878. He launched his career in Britain in 1907 and quickly became London’s preeminent portrait photographer, stylishly documenting the artistic elite and the political and financial brokers of the Edwardian era. By the mid-1920s, E.O. Hoppé turned his attention to industrial development, first in the United States, and later in Ireland, Britain, and Germany. Hoppé corresponded extensively with the great German modernist Albert Renger-Patzsch, anticipated the work of August Sander in his photographs of human types, and is compared to his American peers Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Sheeler, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, and Edward Weston. Hoppé died in London in 1972. His influence is only now being rediscovered and acknowledged in contemporary art histories.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.3.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 270 x 295 mm |
Gewicht | 2050 g |
Einbandart | Leinen |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
Schlagworte | Arbeit / Arbeitswelt (Motiv) • Deutschland • Fotobuch • Fotografen/-innen (Einzelne Personen) • Fotograf / Fotografin (Einzelne Personen) • Fotografie • Hoppé, E. O. • Ufa |
ISBN-10 | 3-86930-937-7 / 3869309377 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-86930-937-8 / 9783869309378 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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