Horst Hamann

Self portrait

Horst Hamann (born April 27, 1958 in Mannheim ) is a German photographer .

Life

He grew up in Mannheim-Lindenhof and Mannheim-Niederfeld and attended the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium . He played soccer at MFC 08 Lindenhof and FV Weinheim . Together with Fritz Walter , at the age of 20, he played with Weinheim in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (third-highest league), but then decided on photography.

In the early 1970s, Hamann made his first experiences with photography and Super-8 film. After graduating from high school in 1979, he went on a photo tour of 40 states in the USA . Other stays in the United States soon followed, and in 1989 he emigrated to the United States. He married the actress Marie Préaud in 1994, with whom he has two sons, Mateo and Paolo. He has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 2009 .

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Hamann mainly takes photos with a Linhof Technorama , a panorama camera and a Schneider-Kreuznach lens . His idea of ​​placing the panorama camera in the 6x17 format vertically caused an international sensation. His book New York Vertical , which was written between 1991 and 1996, shows completely new aspects of the city, which has already been photographed many times. As a result, further vertical city portraits were created. He was the first living German photographer to have a six-month solo exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York from 1998–99 .

Exhibitions (selection)

• Cars and Stripes, 1981, Krefeld
• Evidences from the USA, 1982, Ludwigshafen
• Pictures at an exhibition, 1984, Vienna
• Confrontations, 1986, Budapest
• Period, 1989, Mannheim
• New York Vertical, 1999, New York
• Horst Hamann, 1999, Galerie Kasten , Mannheim
• New paths in industrial photography, 1999, Ludwigshafen
• Verticals, 2000, New York
• Horst Hamann: New York, 2002, London
• Horst Hamann, Galerie Kasten, Mannheim
• Horst Hamann, art Chicago, 2003, Galerie Kasten, Mannheim
• New York Vertical, 2004, Moscow
• New York Vertical, 2004, Seoul
• Horst Hamann: New York 3: 1, 2005, Kunsthalle Mannheim
• Horst Hamann and Marie Preaud, 2005, Galerie Kasten, Mannheim
• Seh-Fahrt, 2005, Berlin
• "stay vertical", 2006, Galerie Kasten, Mannheim
• "apart", 2010, Galerie Kasten, Mannheim
• "apart", 2011, Museum Bensheim, Bensheim
• Horst Hamann: MYTH, 2011, artlabheidelberg, Alte Tabakfabrik PJ Landfried, Heidelberg
• America , exhibition hall, Schulstrasse 1a, Frankfurt am Main and Braubach-five, Frankfurt am Main.

Photo books (selection)

• Mannheim - Insights into a City, Mannheim 1986, ISBN 3-87804-170-5 .
• Period at the same time - indifferent ?, Mannheim 1988, ISBN 3-923003-41-2 .
• Jochen Sendler, portrait of a sculptor, Munich 1991.
• Absolutely Manhattan, New York 1992.
• Look, New York 1994.
• New York, Munich 1995.
• New York Vertical, Mannheim 1996, ISBN 3-923003-99-4 .
• Faces of a Company, Mannheim 1999.
• Horst Hamann New York, Mannheim 2001.
• Vertical View, Mannheim 2001.
• BOOX Vol. 1 World Trade Center, Portland 2002.
• Panorama Deutsche Bahn, Mannheim 2003, ISBN 3-89823-182-8 .
• One Night on Broadway, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8296-0127-1 .
• Paris Vertical, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-8327-9030-6 .
• Vertical New Yorkers, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 978-3-8327-9159-9 .
• Mannheim Vertical, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-89823-329-3 .
• New York Panorama, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-89823-342-2 .
• Downtown , Edition Panorama, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-89823-414-6 .
• America . Edition Panorama, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-89823-455-9 .
• Absolute New York . Edition Panorama, Mannheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-89823-481-8 .
• MANY , Sparkasse Rhein Neckar Nord, Mannheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060419-5 .
• The Waldhof - A photographic portrait , Mannheim 2019.

Awards (selection)

• 1995 Photo Design Award, Look
• 1996 Kodak Photo Book Award, New York Vertical
• 1997 Medal of Honor of the "City of New York"
• 1997 European Architectural Photography Award, New York Vertical
• 1998 Photo Design Gold Award, New York Vertical
• 1999 Photo Design Gold Award, Americana
• 1999 Communication Arts Award, Americana
• 2000 Photo Design Gold Award, Paris Vertical
• 2000 Photo Design Award, Faces of a Company
• 2004 red dot design award , New York Vertical
• 2005 red dot design award, Vertical New Yorkers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.lindenhof-aktuell.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Linenhof-aktuell-April-2015.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/folk/New-York-ist-meine-vertISCHE-Stadt-article2188396.html
3. ↑ Panorama photo book "America": "The rustier, the more beautiful" , interview with Antje Blinda, in Spiegel Online , December 14, 2012, accessed on December 14, 2012

Web links

• Horst Hamann's website
• Literature by and about Horst Hamann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Horst Hamann in the Internet Movie Database (English)