Alfred Steffen
Alfred Steffen (* 1963 in Bergheim , Erft ) is a German photographer.
Life
Alfred Steffen grew up in the district town of Bergheim on the left bank of the Rhine . There he attended the Gutenberg High School . After training as a photographer at the Lette-Verein in Berlin, he began working as a photographer for the lifestyle magazine Tempo in 1986 . Since then he has worked for magazines and newspapers such as Stern, SZ-Magazin (series: "Don't say anything!"), Max, Vogue and Zeit . His work has been exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions and published in books.
One of the first multimedia CD-ROMs appeared as an exhibition catalog to accompany an exhibition of his portraits in 1994. During the Love Parade in 1996, Steffen portrayed 250 participants in 25 hours. This resulted in the book Portrait of a Generation - The Love Parade Family Book , published by Taschen-Verlag. Alfred Steffen runs a photo studio in Berlin.
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Exhibitions (selection)
- 1994 “Portraits 86–93”, FNAC Gallery , Berlin
- 1996 “Portraits - Well-known Faces from the Present”, Museum of Art and Industry, Forum Photography, Hamburg
- 1996 "Ethno - Portraits of Warriors and Indians", PPS Gallery, Hamburg
- 1997 “Portraits - Well-known Faces from the Present”, photo days in Herten
Books (photo books, selection)
- 1994 Portraits, exhibition catalog CD-Rom, digital world edition, ISBN 3-930543-00-1
- 1997 Portrait of a Generation- The Love Parade Family Book, Taschen-Verlag, ISBN 3-8228-8178-3
- 2004 One World, Edition Braus, ISBN 3-89904-060-0
Web links
- Official website of alfred-steffen.de
- Alfred Steffen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview about his shoot with Peer Steinbrück for the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- »Often those who are least expected to be creative are creative« , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , May 23, 2019 (Interview about the portrait series "Don't say anything!")
Individual evidence
- ↑ »Often those who are least expected to be creative are creative« , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Pee instead of posing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1996 ( online ).
- ^ Alfred's world . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 2004 ( online ).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Steffen, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergheim |