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Harf Zimmermann 2018 in front of his exhibition BRAND WAND

Harf Zimmermann (born November 2, 1955 in Dresden ) is a German photographer who became known for his large format photography with large and very large cameras, for example the works BRAND WAND and Hufelandstrasse 1055 Berlin . With his panorama photos he was Germany's most renowned panorama photographer at the beginning of the 2000s. He is co-founder of the Berlin photo agency Ostkreuz .

Life

After attending elementary school, Zimmermann graduated from the extended secondary school in Berlin , where he passed his Abitur in 1974 . In 1977 he began studying journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he broke off in 1979 without a degree. He then began working as a photo laboratory assistant at Neues Deutschland (ND) and continued this until he began studying photography in 1982 at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art . In 1987 he finished his studies in Leipzig with his diploma thesis Hufelandstraße 1055 Berlin with his mentor Arno Fischer . He photographed houses and people on the street. Parts of the work were used in a special in GEO magazine on the 20th anniversary of German reunification , together with an essay by Joachim Gauck . Zimmermann lived in Hufelandstrasse from 1981 to 1991.

Zimmermann has been working as a freelance photographer and photo designer in Berlin since 1987. His work has been published worldwide. He works for GEO France , Spiegel , Stern , The New York Times Magazin , Reader's Digest , mare and Le Figaro Magazin, among others . After doing commissioned work for international magazines, he now works almost exclusively on his own artistic projects. In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Ostkreuz photo agency , from which he separated again in 1999. During the period of collaboration, Zimmermann curated and edited national and international exhibitions for the Ostkreuz agency as well as two book publications by the agency. In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Friends' Association of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin . In 2010, together with the architect Heinrich Burchard, he founded the Rette liveable center campaign .

One of his long-term topics was published in 2015 in the monograph BRAND WAND by Steidl Verlag . Zimmermann worked on the self-financed project in various stages for more than 20 years. The reviews contained various considerations about a possible conflict with the Polish street art artist Jola Kudela ("Yola"). The point of contention was the depiction of the remains of one of her murals on a fire wall in Warsaw. Zimmermann saw himself covered by the freedom of panorama that was legally guaranteed in most European countries (except in France, Belgium, Greece and Italy), Kudela saw the copyright on her work infringed. In order to avoid a legal dispute among artists, Zimmermann had the book cover and a sheet of the book reprinted at his own expense in order to remove the corresponding image from the work.

Publications

  • Volker Kluge , Harf Zimmermann (photos): Olympiastadion Berlin: Stones begin to talk. Parthas-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932529-28-6 .
  • Jochen and Harf Zimmermann (photos), Peter Sandmeyer (introduction): Dresden - Vaterstadt 1945–2005. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89479-203-5 .
  • Harf carpenter. With a text by Dieter Bartetzko: World Heritage Dresden Elbe Valley. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89479-299-2 .
  • Harf Zimmermann (photos), Harald Martenstein (foreword): Berlin Panorama. Edition Braus in Wachter-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89904-232-0 .
  • Andreas Platthaus (text), Mine Bertrand (captions), Harf Zimmermann (photos), Philip Mattson (translation): Dresden Panorama. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89904-272-6 .
  • Klaus Kurpjuweit, Harf Zimmermann: Flexity Berlin. The new tram for everyone. Edition Braus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89466-270-7 .
  • Katharina Brichetti, Harf Zimmermann (photos), Johannes Cramer (foreword): Berlin's new center. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-798-3 .
  • Harf Zimmermann, Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen: The train that moves Berlin: 150 years of the tram. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89479-945-8 .
  • Harf Zimmermann: fire wall. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86930-628-5 .
  • Harf Zimmermann: Hufelandstrasse, 1055 Berlin. Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-264-2 .
  • Harf Zimmermann: The Sad-Eyed Lady. (German edition). Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-606-0 .

Exhibitions

Prices

  • 1988 Prize for Young European Photographers from Deutsche Leasing AG Cologne

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merian 9/2003
  2. ↑ Andreas Wenderoth and Joachim Gauck with photos by H. Zimmermann: Germany, how are you united? ( Memento of October 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Cover story: Hufelandstraße - Today without yesterday. Germany in close-up: the metamorphosis of a Berlin street in two decades of reunification. In: GEO Magazin, No. 10, October 2010.
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel April 23, 2017, Sunday supplement pp. 4–5.
  4. ↑ https://steidl.de/Kuenstler/Harf-Zimmermann-0506294148.html
  5. ↑ Action day at the Postfuhramt Berlin Mitte, 25 August 2011 In: vimeo.com (video)
  6. ↑ Gudrun Bartels: Berlin's colorful firewalls are threatened with extinction In: tagesspiegel.de , January 15, 2012.
  7. ^ Lennart Laberenz: freedom of panorama. Freedom is only here. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 29, 2015, p. 11.
  8. ↑ Exhibition: Harf Zimmermann in the Pool Gallery ( Memento from January 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Portrait of the artist on co-berlin.org
  10. ↑ ASSERVATE 2018
  11. ^ Exhibition BRAND WAND in the Alfred Erhardt Foundation
  12. ↑ EXHIBITION: Parallel Worlds1 at 1014 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028United States
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, harp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden