Christa Peters
Christa Peters (* 1933 in Lübeck ; † 1981 in London ) was a German photographer.
From May 1951, Peters attended the International Master School for Photography in Stuttgart. A year later she moved to the Lette club in Berlin. Her work was recognized for the first time in 1954 when she won the first Photokina youth photo competition . In 1959 she co-founded the youth magazine twen . In the following years she mainly worked for clients from the fashion industry. Her recordings have appeared in Vogue , twen , Stern and Spiegel .
In the late 1960s, Peters shifted the focus of her artistic work to the design of album covers. She moved to London, where she set up her own studio with her husband, the fashion photographer Chadwick Hall. In 1981 she succumbed to an illness.
literature
- Insa van den Berg: The forgotten star photographer , published by Spiegel-Online, August 25, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ On behalf of NINO: Christa Peters ( Memento from August 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Christa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1981 |
| Place of death | London |