Albert Renger-Patzsch : joy before the object

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Albert Renger-Patzsch : joy before the object

essay by Donald Kuspit ; preface by Weston Naef

Aperture, c1993

1st ed

  • : pbk.

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Joy before the object

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"The exhibition 'joy before the object : the photographs of Albert Renger-Patzsch' was organized by the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and opens 26 July 1993."--colophon

"In association with the J. Paul Getty Museum."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79)

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The great German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch was a contemporary of Moholy-Nagy and Brecht and a close friend of Hermann Hesse, yet his work is little known in the English-speaking world. Born in Wurzburg in 1897, Renger-Patzsch was a member of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"). His most famous book Die Welt ist schon (The World is Beautiful), published in 1928, immediately established him as one of the leading photographers in Germany. This volume brings together sixty-five of Renger-Patzsch's photographs, many of them never before published. Together they help trace the life, career, and influence of one of the century's most important photographers, and will be an essential resource for scholars, social historians, and students of photography.

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