Main entry:

Düsseldorfer Photoschule. English.

Title & Author:

The Düsseldorf School of photography / [edited by] Stefan Gronert.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Aperture : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2009.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
"Translated from the German 'Die Düsseldorfer Photoschule' by David H. Wilson.'--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Lothar Schirmer -- Preface -- Photographic emancipation / Stefan Gronert -- Bernd & Hilla Becher -- Andreas Gursky -- Candida Höfer -- Axel Hütte -- Thomas Ruff -- Thomas Struth -- Petra Wunderlich -- Laurenz Berges -- Elger Esser -- Simone Nieweg -- Jörg Sasse -- Biographies, exhibitions and further reading / Isabelle Malz and Maria Müller.
Translated from the German.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The German photographic movement commonly known as the Dusseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, under the instruction of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their comparative grids of mundane industrial buildings captured with an objective and clinical eye. This school has not only birthed some of today's most important and successful photographers, but has also had a fundamental and lasting influence on the history of the medium. The Dusseldorf School of Photography presents over 160 images in a spectacular overview of the breadth of the Dusseldorf School from the early 1970s to today. This impeccable survey is filled with superb reproductions of the best-known photographs by three generations of key Dusseldorf artists: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Axel Hutte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jorg Sasse, Thomas Struth and Petra Wunderlich. With a scholarly text, extensive artist bios and a plate section dedicated to each of these artists, The Dusseldorf School of Photography offers the first comprehensive assessment of this important photographic movement-one that dominates the salesrooms and museums of our times."--Publisher description

ISBN:

9781597111362
1597111368
9783829608084
382960808X

Subject:

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Klasse Bernd Becher
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Alumni and alumnae.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographers Germany Düsseldorf.
Photographie artistique.
Photographes Allemagne Düsseldorf.
art photography.
Photographers.
Fotografie
Ausbildungsstätte
Photography Germany Düsseldorf History 20th century.
Photography Germany Düsseldorf History 21st century.
Germany Düsseldorf.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Gronert, Stefan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266212
Call No.: BIB 197849
Status: Available