Eleazar Michailowitsch Langman

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Self-Portrait Eleazar Langman (1935)

Eleasar Michailowitsch Langman ( Russian Елеазар Михайлович Лангман ; * 1895 in Odessa , † 1940 in Moscow ) was a Soviet photographer .

Life

Langman studied at the Odessa Art School, the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and the Moscow Conservatory, where he received violin lessons. He gave concerts, designed posters and worked for his uncle, the architect A. Langman. In the meantime, he led a military repair team on the Volga-Bugulma railway line.

Langman worked as a photojournalist for newspapers and magazines in Moscow from the 1920s to the 1930s. Among other things, he worked in a brigade led by Boris Ignatowitsch in 1929/1930 , which provided pictures for the Vechernyaya Moscow newspaper . He also published articles in the magazine Sowjezkoje foto (German: Soviet photo ). By the end of 1928 Langman cooperated with the literary artist group LEF ("Left Front of Art"). At the beginning of the 1930s he belonged to the “October group” around Alexander Rodtschenko and Boris Ignatowitsch and took part in their group exhibitions with his photographs. From 1931 to 1940 he worked frequently with the magazine SSSR na stroike . He often traveled to Kazakhstan for his reports . He was a member of a jury that selected photos for exhibitions in America and Europe, took industrial photos for the Izogiz publishing house and contributed photos to several illustrated books.

After separating from his wife, Langman lived his life without a permanent home. Most recently he stayed in Rodchenko's studio in Moscow, where he died impoverished in 1940. The photo artist's archive has been lost.

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Jump into the Water (1932)

As a photographer, Langman worked with a Leica . His realistic photographs dealt with themes from Soviet society, and he experimented with form. He often used slants and angles and very strongly accentuated individual picture elements. Some contemporary critics reacted to his photographs with allegations of formalism. Langman later turned to portrait photography, preferring to depict people up close and slightly from below.

The first portrait photographs of Langman appeared in the magazine SSSR na stroike , as well as in a photo album over 10 years of Uzbekistan . He contributed photographs for other publications that dealt, for example, with the results of the first five-year plan , the reconstruction of Moscow and the Red Army. Among other things, he photographed factories and farms for the Izogiz publishing house. Some of these pictures appeared in a photo book designed by El Lissitzky about the industry of socialism.

Well-known photos by Langman include a. Breakfast (published in 1931 in Proletarskoye photo No. 1, p. 5) and Auf Kamelen (1935). He himself counted radio gymnastics (1931), student (1934) and plowing (1935) among his best works.

Hans-Michael Koetzle classifies Langman in his lexicon of photographers as constructivists , pioneers of the new vision and one of the leading representatives of the photographic avant-garde . He is a "master in combining social content with a new visual language".

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

literature

  • Eleazar (Mikhailovitch) Langman In: Hans-Michael Koetzle: The Lexicon of Photographers: 1900 to today. Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-66479-8 , pp. 250-251.
  • Langman, Yeleazar In: Jane Turner (Ed.): The dictionary of art. Vol. 18, Macmillan, New York 1996, ISBN 0-19-517068-7 , p. 746.
  • Alexander Lavrentiev: Izvestny i neizvestny Langman. In: Fotografia. 3, 1994.

Web links

Commons : Eleazar Langman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Langman, Yeleazar In: The dictionary of art. Vol. 18, p. 746.
  2. ^ Eleazar (Mikhailovitch) Langman In: Hans-Michael Koetzle: The Lexicon of Photographers. Knaur, 2002, pp. 250-251.
  3. ^ The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film thejewishmuseum.org, accessed August 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Eleazar Langman. Concentration of the Image. 1920s - 1940s mamm-mdf.ru, accessed August 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Langman, Eleazar Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лангман, Елеазар Михайлович (Russian); Langman, Yeleazar; Langman, Eleazar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH 1940
Place of death Moscow