German photo service
The German Photo Service or Dephot for short, renamed the German Photo Community Degephot after bankruptcy in 1932 in December of the same year , was a German photo agency . It was founded by Simon Guttmann and Alfred Marx at the end of 1928 and existed until November 1933. The agency was located at Jägerstrasse 11 in Berlin-Mitte, after the bankruptcy and re-establishment as Degephot in Kochstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Dephot is one of the most innovative photo agencies of these years. She had u. a. Otto Umbehr (UMBO), Felix H. Man , Walter Bosshard , Kurt Hübschmann (later he was named Kurt Hutton), Harald Lechenperg and Robert Capa under contract. The Dephot offered about the same time the agency Weltrundschau the first image-text stories and led, inspired by the stories of the AIZ , the first agency reports with participant observation through photography as a method of documentation of social movements in Germany.
literature
- Randy Kaufman: Five Years Dephot (German Photo Service). The photo agency Dephot / Degephot in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung (BIZ) 1929 to 1934. A bibliography . In: Photo History 28 (2008), Issue 107, pp. 23–34.
- Herbert Molderings: A School of Modern Photo Reportage. The photo agency Dephot (German Photo Service) 1928 to 1933 . In: Photo History 28 (2008), Issue 107, pp. 5–21.
- Herbert Molderings: Robert Capa's apprenticeship years in Berlin, 1931–33 . In: ders .: Die Moderne der Fotografie , Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2008, pp. 311–336. ISBN 978-3-86572-635-3
Web links
- Blurb to the contribution by Molderings in Photo History 28 (2007), 107. Retrieved on January 20, 2010 .
- Photography Encyclopedia: Dephot