Düsseldorf Photo School
The school of artistic photography founded by the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher in the late 1970s is referred to as the Düsseldorfer Photo School , the Düsseldorf Photo School , the Becher School or the Becher Class . Its centers were the Düsseldorf Art Academy , at which Bernd Becher held a professorship for photography from 1976 to 1996, and the studio of Bernd and Hilla Becher in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth .
The photographers of the New Objectivity with their work from the 1920s and early 1930s, primarily August Sander , Karl Blossfeldt and Albert Renger-Patzsch, are regarded as their forerunners . The Bechers themselves are considered to be the pioneers of German concept photography .
The artists who emerged from the Düsseldorf Photo School include, in addition to the founders, Laurenz Berges , Boris Becker , Volker Döhne , Elger Esser , Claudia Fährenkemper , Bernhard Fuchs , Claus Goedicke , Andreas Gursky , Candida Höfer , Axel Hütte , Simone Nieweg , Tata Ronkholz , Thomas Ruff , Jörg Sasse , Thomas Struth , Petra Wunderlich .
“The label Becherklasse or the Düsseldorfer Schule stands for an objectifying photographic point of view from a certain distance, also with regard to the next generation of class members, which clearly differs from the journalistic or more free imagery using documentary practices of other German photographers . In the 1990s, the Düsseldorf School is outwardly, in the continuity of New Objectivity ( New Seeing ), even as a synonym for German photography par excellence. "
“If you look at the recently published critical voices, both seem to be present to the same extent with regard to the works of the“ Becher class ”: Their pictures are both admired and rejected, discussed emphatically and questioned with skepticism. They provoke reactions and stimulate comments that are strikingly unfamiliar: indifference. "
Web links
- Dusseldorf School of Photography , Tate Gallery website
- Florence Waters: How Dusseldorf's photographers changed the way we see . Article dated September 4, 2015 in the telegraph.co.uk portal
literature
- Martin Engler (Ed.): Photographs become images. The cup class. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2773-7 .
- Stefan Gronert : The Düsseldorf Photo School. Photographs 1961–2008. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8296-0291-4 .
- Verena Krebs: Photography at the Art Academy Düsseldorf. Past and present . Master's thesis at the Ruhr University Bochum (art history), 2005, ISBN 978-3-63841-431-9 .
- Werner Lippert, Christoph Schaden (Ed.): The Red Bulli. Stephen Shore and Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie , NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf 2010.
- Jean-Hubert Martin, Rupert Pfab: today until now. Contemporary photography from Düsseldorf , 2 volumes, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8296-0052-6 .
- Rupert Pfab: Studies on Düsseldorf photography. The early academy students of Bernd Becher , VDG, Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-89739-201-1 .
- Maren Polte: Great pictures. The photography aesthetics of the "Becher School" , Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7861-2655-3 .
- Armin Second , Fabrice Hergott (Ed.): Objectivités. La photographie à Düsseldorf , Paris 2008, ISBN 978-3-8296-0403-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bechers and their students ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website from March 10, 2005 in the arte.tv portal , accessed on May 10, 2014
- ↑ Article by Bernd Becher in the portal mitpress.mit.edu , accessed on May 10, 2014
- ↑ Werner Lippert, Christoph Schaden (ed.): The Red Bulli. Stephen Shore and Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie , NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf 2010, pp. 332–333.
