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Product Identifiers

PublisherAperture Foundation, Incorporated

ISBN-101597111368

ISBN-139781597111362

eBay Product ID (ePID)102833188

Product Key Features

Original LanguageGerman

Book TitleDusseldorf School of Photography

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows, Individual Photographers / General, General, European

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Photography

AuthorStefan Gronert

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length12.2 in

Item Width10.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2009-933861

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal779.0922435534

SynopsisThe German photographic movement commonly known as the D_sseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie D_sseldorf, 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 D_sseldorf School of Photography presents over 160 images in a spectacular overview of the breadth of the D_sseldorf 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 D_sseldorf artists: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida H_fer, Axel H_tte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, J_rg Sasse, Thomas Struth and Petra Wunderlich. With a scholarly text, extensive artist bios and a plate section dedicated to each of these artists, The D_sseldorf School of Photography offers the first comprehensive assessment of this important photographic movement-one that dominates the salesrooms and museums of our times., 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.

LC Classification NumberTR646.G3D87313 2009

Text byGronert, Stefan