"ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH: JOY BEFORE THE OBJECT". Collectif. Edition Aperture Foundation, New York en collaboration avec le Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1993. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 80 pages. Textes en anglais de Donald Kuspit, préface de Michael E. Hoffman, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, 8 in-texte et 49 pleine page, par Albert Renger-Patzsch. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition "Joy Before the Object: The Photographs of Albert Renger-Patzsch" au Alfred Stieglitz Center du Philadelphia Museum of Art du 24 Juillet au 26 Septembre 1993.

 

"Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, Who is one of the founders of modern European photography. ln a climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined. A new aesthetic burst forth, expressed through the glass and Steel of the Bauhaus, in graphic design, on artists' easels, and in the theater. Chief among these pioneers whose work would alter the way we perceive reality was Albert Renger-Patzsch. His 1928 book Die Welt ist schön (The world is beautiful) established him as a pioneer of The New Objectivity, a movement that also encompassed the activities of such photographers as August Sander, Werner Manz, and Hans Finsler. Inspired by an interest in technology and a conviction that beauty was inherent in all natural and human designs, Renger-Patzsch used the camera as an instrument to convey his perceptions of nature and the machine. Whether photographing trees and plant forms, or the industrial structures and landscapes of his native northern Germany, Renger-Patzsch found unexpected resonance in the everyday objects of the world around him…"

 

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