Amos Schliack

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Amos Schliack

Amos Schliack (born October 21, 1951 in Bonn ) is a German photographer and photojournalist and lives in Hamburg.

biography

Amos Schliack was born in 1951 as the son of the neurologist and university professor Hans Schliack and his wife Renate, b. Steinkopff, born in Bonn. A few months after his birth, the family moved to Lübeck, and in 1955 from there to West Berlin, where he started school in the forest elementary school in 1958.

At the age of 13, Schliack discovered his father's old roll film camera and made his first attempts with it. During the 1960s his father worked as a doctor on a project at the Hadassah Clinic in Jerusalem, so Amos Schliack was given the opportunity to stay longer in Israel while still a student. After graduating from the Kant-Gymnasium Berlin , he studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1971 under Dietmar Grötzebach . A formative encounter and friendship with the photographer Herbert List led Amos Schliack to the decision to turn his interest in photography into a profession.

In 1974 Schliack moved to Hamburg for professional reasons and from 1976 worked for the then new magazine GEO , for Stern and for other magazines. During this time numerous reports and - in collaboration with the authors Wibke Bruhns , Henryk Broder and Mark E. Woodcock - books on Jerusalem, Mea Shearim and New York were created.

From 1978 to 1981 he spent 1½ years in Jerusalem, where he worked for GEO and - together with journalist Wibke Bruhns - for Stern.

In 1981 he documented the Berlin Wall in the 20th year of its existence from the West Berlin side, the report was published in Stern and in a book.

Schliack spent the summer of 1982 in New York City, where he took photos for a book and an exhibition on the architecture of high-rise buildings, aka "Skyscraper", on behalf of Alfred Dunhill GmbH. In order to visualize the phenomenon of "height", he decided, overcoming his own fear of heights, to photograph a large part of the pictures from the helicopter and from the perspective of the construction workers.

In 1983, Schliack received a first prize from the World Press Photo for the star report “Station Peiper” about the children's cancer ward at the University Hospital Giessen .

From the mid-1980s onwards, Schliack increasingly turned to food, advertising and portrait photography and worked for agencies and magazines in his studio in Hamburg's university district until 2004. During this time, a number of cookbooks were created, including on the subjects of truffles and lobster, with food photos and reports on the respective producers (in Cahor, southern France, and Maine in the USA). An order from Hamburger Sparkasse and the BBDO agency gave him the opportunity to photograph portraits of over 100 Hamburg citizens for a long-term campaign. Some of these portraits were shown in 1994 in an exhibition in the Hamburg PPS gallery by FC Gundlach .

In 2004 Schliack moved to London and from there to Tel Aviv in 2008, where he documented the 100th anniversary of the city as “Photographer in Residence”. He spent the summer of 2006 in Haifa and witnessed the Second Lebanon War and Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel from the perspective of the Rambam Medical Center and the ambulance of the Magen David Adom .

Back in Hamburg and inspired by the encounter with the artist Gunter Demnig , Schliack began to deal with the Stolpersteine project and initiated the residents' initiative "Grindel Leuchtet" in his neighborhood, the Grindelviertel , in memory of the November pogroms in 1938 . His photos of the Stolpersteine ​​des Grindel, together with pictures from Mea Shearim and Auschwitz , were presented in an exhibition at the Postel Gallery in 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wibke Bruhns, Amos Schliack: Jerusalem . Ed .: Victor Schuller. Stern books, Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, ISBN 3-570-04952-3 .
2. ↑ Amos Schliack, Henryk Broder: The Jews of Mea Shearim . Eller & Richter, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-922294-76-6 .
3. ↑ Amos Schliack: NY - New York / photographed by Amos Schliack . 2nd Edition. Eller & Richter, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-922294-61-8 .
4. ↑ World Press Photo 1983. Retrieved in 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ken Hom, Pierre-Jean Pébeyre, Amos Schliack: Truffle . Falken, Niedernhausen 2000, ISBN 3-8068-7556-1 .
6. ^ Matthias Brendel, Holger Jacobs, Amos Schliack: Hummer . Mosaik, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-576-11569-2 .
7. ^ Postel Gallery - Grindel's Stumbling Blocks. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .