AUTOPSIA, VOLUME 1 - Manfred Heiting, Roland Jaeger
Winner of the German Photo Book Award 2013 Category Photo History/Photographic Theory
This two-volume work presents German-language photo books of the interwar period in all their diversity. It documents photo books in the state of preservation in which they were published, in their various equipment and editions.
The focus on the German-speaking world and the period from 1918 to 1945 underlines the international importance of production and publishing in this cultural area and period in the history of the photobook. More than seventy specialist texts explain the characteristics of photo books, their printing and marketing, and their significance for the history of the photo book. Selected publishers and characteristic book series are presented.
Essays deal monographically with the publications of photographers such as Karl Blossfeldt, Heinrich Hauser, Heinrich Hoffmann, Emil Otto Hoppé, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Paul Wolff. Review articles are devoted to architectural photography, propaganda works, children's books illustrated with photographs, photographic guides, film as a pictorial theme and other special forms of photo books.
Published by Steidl, 2012
516 pages
26.6 x 29 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-412-0
Winner of the German Photo Book Award 2013 Category Photo History/Photographic Theory
This two-volume work presents German-language photo books of the interwar period in all their diversity. It documents photo books in the state of preservation in which they were published, in their various equipment and editions.
The focus on the German-speaking world and the period from 1918 to 1945 underlines the international importance of production and publishing in this cultural area and period in the history of the photobook. More than seventy specialist texts explain the characteristics of photo books, their printing and marketing, and their significance for the history of the photo book. Selected publishers and characteristic book series are presented.
Essays deal monographically with the publications of photographers such as Karl Blossfeldt, Heinrich Hauser, Heinrich Hoffmann, Emil Otto Hoppé, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Paul Wolff. Review articles are devoted to architectural photography, propaganda works, children's books illustrated with photographs, photographic guides, film as a pictorial theme and other special forms of photo books.
Published by Steidl, 2012
516 pages
26.6 x 29 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-412-0
Winner of the German Photo Book Award 2013 Category Photo History/Photographic Theory
This two-volume work presents German-language photo books of the interwar period in all their diversity. It documents photo books in the state of preservation in which they were published, in their various equipment and editions.
The focus on the German-speaking world and the period from 1918 to 1945 underlines the international importance of production and publishing in this cultural area and period in the history of the photobook. More than seventy specialist texts explain the characteristics of photo books, their printing and marketing, and their significance for the history of the photo book. Selected publishers and characteristic book series are presented.
Essays deal monographically with the publications of photographers such as Karl Blossfeldt, Heinrich Hauser, Heinrich Hoffmann, Emil Otto Hoppé, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Paul Wolff. Review articles are devoted to architectural photography, propaganda works, children's books illustrated with photographs, photographic guides, film as a pictorial theme and other special forms of photo books.
Published by Steidl, 2012
516 pages
26.6 x 29 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-412-0
