Alfred Paszkowiak

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Alfred Paszkowiak (* 1926 in Berlin ; † October 2000 there ) was a German photographer and photo journalist .

Life

In 1947 he did an internship with a theater photographer . In 1949 he became a photo reporter at the Soviet news office in Schwerin, and in 1950 he became a photo editor and photographer for Peace Post . In the post-war period (before the Wall was built), Paszkowiak still worked for clients on both sides of the zone border. In 1954 he worked as a freelancer for the magazine Freie Welt , and from 1965 to 1969 he was a member of the SIGNUM photography group of the GDR's Association of Journalists . From 1977 he worked as a photo reporter for the Free World . For this magazine, he has been photographing all participants in the International Peace Tour (the most important cycle tour for amateurs every year in May) since 1962 , who were featured on the cover and back cover.

Illustrated books

  • The most sensitive, day and night . Fotokino, Halle (Saale) 1959, 2nd edition 1962
  • Circus. An unromantic report . Henschel, Berlin 1963 (with Hans-Jürgen Jessel and Helga Bemmann )
  • Easter in the Holy Land . Union, Berlin 1969 (Text: Konrad Schmidt )
  • Erfurt . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1970, 4th edition 1984
  • Bulgaria . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1972, 4th edition 1982
  • Weimar . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1975, 2nd edition 1977
  • Moscow . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1977
  • A year in Moscow . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1980, 3rd edition 1985

literature

  • Society for Photography in the Kulturbund der DDR (Ed.): Early pictures. An exhibition on the history of photography in the GDR . Exhibition catalog of the Society for Photography in the Kulturbund der DDR, Leipzig, November 8 to December 15, 1985, Leipzig.
  • Mathias Bertram (Ed.): The pure life. Photographs from the GDR - The early years 1945–1975 . Verlag Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-942473-90-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Beaucamp , Bettina Schaschke: Art in the GDR: a retrospective of the National Gallery . G - + - H-Verlag, 2003. ISBN 978-3-931-76874-4 , p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Paszkowiak, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photo journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 2000
Place of death Berlin