Felix H. Man

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Felix H. Man (Hans Felix Sigismund Baumann; born November 30, 1893 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 30, 1985 in London ) was a photographer , copywriter and collector .

Life

After graduating from high school in Freiburg, he began studying art and art history in Munich and Berlin in 1912 , which he had to interrupt because of the First World War . He took part in the war as an officer and began taking photos at the front. It was here that he wrote his first report, Ruhe on the Western Front . In 1918 he resumed his studies in Munich, which he had continued in Berlin from 1926.

In 1927 he began to work as a press draftsman for BZ am Mittag and photo reporter for Tempo in Berlin . From 1928 he was employed by the German Photo Service (Dephot) , for which he worked from 1929 under the pseudonym MAN. His reports were also published under this pseudonym in the Münchner Illustrierte Presse , where he met Stefan Lorant . Over the years 1929 to 1932, 110 photo reports were created , such as his photo essay A Day in the Life of Mussolini from 1931.

He traveled to North Africa , Canada and the Canadian Arctic, from where he delivered his photo reports for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . In 1933 he returned to Berlin and did not get a work permit because he refused to enter the Reich Press Chamber and so he emigrated to England in May 1934. His 41 photo reports, created in Canada between 1929 and 1935, continued to appear in the BIZ.

After emigrating in 1934, he met Stefan Lorant again in London, where he worked for the start-up of the Weekly Illustrated and published 47 photo reports within six months. He then moved to the Daily Mirror , where he stayed until 1938, and then worked under the direction of Stefan Lorant as chief photographer at the Picture Post , whose appearance he shaped until 1953 with 100-150 photo reports a year. He has also worked for Life and the Sunday Times .

In 1948, the Picture Post began printing color pages and they also became pioneering in the field of photo reportage in color and so he pioneered color photography in photojournalism alongside Tim N. Gidal .

After the Second World War, Man began collecting artist lithographs and published 150 years of artists' lithographs 1803-1953 in 1953 and Eight European Artists a year later . From 1959 to 1971 he lived in Switzerland and then in Rome , where he worked for Die Welt .

His photo reports led away from juxtaposed individual images and so he is considered an innovator in European photojournalism . His work on the history of lithography is also significant.

Works

  • 150 years of artists' lithographs 1803 - 1953 - London: Heinemann, 1953.
  • Artists' lithographs: a world history from Senefelder to the present day. - London: Studio Vista, 1970.
  • Eight European Artists. - London: Heinemann, 1954.
  • Felix H. Man - Photographs from 70 Years. - Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 1983. ISBN 3-88814-122-2

literature

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ engl. Original title "Man with camera". Secker / Warburg, 1983

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personal data
SURNAME Man, Felix H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumann, Hans Felix Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1985
Place of death London