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Dr. Paul Wolff: The Man with the Leica.
Hazan
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| N° d'inventaire | 30330 |
| Format | 24 x 27.2 |
| Détails | 144 p., numerous b&w photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Vanves, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754113533 |
Paul Wolff (1887-1951) is one of the most famous German photographers of the interwar period. His work is rarely exhibited, however: here it is the subject of the first-ever French monograph, presenting more than 140 photographs from a rich corpus of nearly 700,000 images spanning the period from the Weimar Republic to the post-war period, including the National Socialist years.
Founder, with Alfred Tritschler, of a photographic agency, Wolff is less an artist than a "ferryman" of the forms of photographic modernity of his time, from New Objectivity to New Vision, notably through the use of the small 35 mm format launched by the Leica brand, which he used from 1926.
His incredible international popularity – his book My Experiences with the Leica (1934) was published in several languages and sold tens of thousands of copies – made him an omnipresent photographer, too often neglected by traditional histories of photography, even though his work provides material for useful questioning of the historical, sociological and ideological role of so-called “mainstream” photography in a period as troubled as that of interwar Germany.
Founder, with Alfred Tritschler, of a photographic agency, Wolff is less an artist than a "ferryman" of the forms of photographic modernity of his time, from New Objectivity to New Vision, notably through the use of the small 35 mm format launched by the Leica brand, which he used from 1926.
His incredible international popularity – his book My Experiences with the Leica (1934) was published in several languages and sold tens of thousands of copies – made him an omnipresent photographer, too often neglected by traditional histories of photography, even though his work provides material for useful questioning of the historical, sociological and ideological role of so-called “mainstream” photography in a period as troubled as that of interwar Germany.
Founder, with Alfred Tritschler, of a photographic agency, Wolff is less an artist than a "ferryman" of the forms of photographic modernity of his time, from New Objectivity to New Vision, notably through the use of the small 35 mm format launched by the Leica brand, which he used from 1926.
His incredible international popularity – his book My Experiences with the Leica (1934) was published in several languages and sold tens of thousands of copies – made him an omnipresent photographer, too often neglected by traditional histories of photography, even though his work provides material for useful questioning of the historical, sociological and ideological role of so-called “mainstream” photography in a period as troubled as that of interwar Germany.