Title & Author:

Eyes wide open! : 100 years of Leica photography / Hans-Michael Koetzle ; texts: Gabriel Bauret [and 14 others] ; translations: Alexandra Cox.

Publication:

Heidelberg : Kehrer, [2015]

Description:

563 pages : many photographs (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 557) and index.
Has Barnacle still got his Leica? : preface and thanks / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- The compact camera's going to be in demand, I'm sure of that : Ernst Leitz II and Leica reconstruction of a historic decision / Ulf Richter -- It was necessary to warn, to instruct, and to teach : picture books, brochures, and guides on the new possibilities of Leica photography / Thomas Wiegand -- Living Leica : selected Leica literature : educational books, guidebooks, illustrated books / Thomas Wiegand -- The Leica is the only camera a motor enthusiast can possibly need : 35 mm and photo avant-garde in the years prior to the Second World War / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- You'd have to dance first : the painter Alfons Walde and photography as prelude / Rebekka Reuter -- Illustrative photography is the cosmopolitan's contemporary history microscope : photojournalism 1925-35 : media market -- photo technology -- image concept -- editorial -- illustrated press / Bernd Weise -- On the attack with the camera : German war photographers in the Second World War / Anton Holzer -- Man and his life, so brief, so frail, so threatened : humanist photography and the Leica -- a long-term love affair? / Peter Hamilton -- It was high time for a clear-out : on the reception of subjective fotografie by professional critics and ambitious Leica amateurs / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- One of the most interesting and many-sided fields of activity : on the work of the industry photographer Liesel Springmann / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- We need to get outside, take the camera with us : on Italian photography during the postwar period / Enrica Viganò -- Photography saved me : on the necessity of vision : Spanish avant-garde circa 1960 / Alejandro Castellote -- Either you take a very close look or it's not worth pressing the release : on the fringe of the modern age : Portuguese photography of the 1940s to 1960s / Emília Tavares -- Here's one for all time! : on the age of the great magazines, of great stories, and of really great pictures / Michael Ebert -- As regards technology, there were no taboos for me : how a young generation of photographers in the 50s spelled out photography anew / Thomas Honickel -- The vital key to the problems of color photography has not yet been found : Leica and the visual culture of color photography 1949-86 : a reception history outlined / Christoph Schaden -- The biggest resistance came from the editors : the Leica and fashion photography : remarks on a tardy alliance / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- Around his neck a small, compact device : a hundred years of Japanese photography reflected by the Leica / Gabriel Bauret -- Spring, summer, autumn, and winter in Bahia : on ritual and other deaths in the oeuvre of the photographer Leonore Mau / Franziska Mecklenburg -- A photo is all the better for transporting more of the invisible : the Leica in the age of auteur photographers / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- Biographies : photographers and authors / Hans-Michael Koetzle -- Corporate and product history : facts / Hans-Michael Koetzle and Ulf Richter.
Translated from the German language.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9783868285307 (English edition ; hd. bd.)
386828530X (English edition ; hd. bd.)

Subject:

Leica camera History.
Leica camera History Pictorial works.
Leica (Appareils-photo) Histoire.
Leica (Appareils-photo) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Leica camera
Bildreportage
Dokumentarfotografie
Kleinbildkamera
Leica
Fotoapparat
Technik
Unternehmen
1914-2014

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Koetzle, Hans-Michael, 1953- editor.
Bauret, Gabriel, contributor.
Cox, Alexandra, translator.
Koetzle, Michael, 1953- editor.
Bauret, Gabriel contributor.
Cox, Alexandra translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290834
Call No.: BIB 234043
Status: Available