Arne Reimer

Arne Reimer (* 1972 in Rendsburg ) is a German photographer and author who has made a name for himself in the field of jazz .

Live and act

Reimer, who already photographed jazz musicians as a teenager, first studied at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig , where he graduated in 2001 with a diploma in fine arts; From 2003 he studied on a Fullbright scholarship at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where he received a "Master of Fine Arts" in 2005.

From 2006 to 2012 Reimer worked as an artistic assistant at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig; He also worked as a freelance photographer for record companies such as ECM Records and for the jazz press. He initiated the American Jazz Heroes series for the magazine Jazzthing , for which he visited numerous very old jazz musicians at home, spoke to them and portrayed them photographically. For the two photo volumes resulting from the series, which were highly praised by the critics, he received the special award of ECHO Jazz in 2017 . Furthermore, an exhibition of the same name was created, which in 2017 a a. was shown in the House of Photography Burghausen. The starting point for the photo book Long Play was Reimer's finding that record stores in the USA were going under; he documented these places that were central to the marketing of the record as a medium.

Fonts

• Rolf Kissling JazzBaltica , Hamburg 2006; ISBN 3-938017-55-4 .
• American Jazz Heroes: Visits to 50 Jazz Legends , Cologne 2013; ISBN 978-3981585803 .
• American Jazz Heroes. Vol. 2: Visits to 50 Jazz Legends , Cologne 2016; ISBN 978-3981585810 .
• Long play . Cologne, London 2017; ISBN 978-3960980377

Web links

• Web presence
• Interview (Rondo 2016)
• Arne Reimer at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich Olshausen hugging the flugelhorn in the garden , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 13, 2013
2. ^ Arne Reimer - American Jazz Heroes
3. ↑ Review, Jazzpodium 9/2017