Manfred Hamm

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Manfred Hamm (born May 13, 1944 in Cainsdorf ) is a German photographer . He became known for his photographs of industrial buildings and his illustrated books on special photographic subjects.

Life

Manfred Hamm was born in Cainsdorf near Zwickau . When he was eleven years old, his mother went with him to the west of Germany, where he spent some time in Cologne . From 1961 to 1963 he trained as an advertising and theater photographer in Ulm and Munich . From 1965 to 1967 he toured Australia and Southeast Asia , financed by doing odd jobs, for example as a photographer. In 1967 he moved to Berlin , where he worked as Ben Wargin's assistant in Galerie S until 1970 . From 1970 Manfred Hamm worked as a press photographer for various magazines. In 1977 his first illustrated book Berlin - Landschaft einer Stadt was published . Further book publications and photo exhibitions followed. He was particularly taken with "The ancient sites of tomorrow". This is the title of his book about the ruins of the industrial age , published in 2003 . Hamm has been an appointed member of the German Society for Photography since 1984 . In the meantime Manfred Hamm has given up photography.

Work (selection)

  • with Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern : Moon Spirit Ride. Bruckmann-Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • Berlin - landscapes of a city. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 1977.
  • Berlin - monuments of an industrial landscape. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
  • Cafes. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 1979.
  • Dead Tech - A guide to the archeology of Tomorrow. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, California, USA 1981.
  • Dead technology. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Dying mines. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
  • Gares, Fer et Styles. Herscher-Verlag, Paris 1984.
  • Train stations. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Industrial history of water. VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • Industrial history of the textile. VDI-Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Lower Saxony and Bremen: monuments of industry and technology. Nicolai, Berlin 1990.
  • Brick buildings between Lübeck and Stralsund. Nicolai, Berlin 1990.
  • Ludwig Persius - architecture of the king. Mann Brothers, Berlin 1993.
  • with Manfred M. Molter (ed.) and Claus-Dieter Sprink : Köpenick: a district of Berlin , Berlin, 1993, ISBN 978-3-87584-430-6 .
  • The Berlin suburb - history and architecture of a district of Potsdam. Nicolai, Berlin 1995.
  • Architecture and beauty - the Schinkel School in Berlin and Brandenburg. Transit, Berlin 1997.
  • Berlin - Photographs by Manfred Hamm. Nicolai, Berlin 2000, 2nd edition 2004.
  • with Rolf Peter Sieferle : The ancient sites of tomorrow. Ruins of the industrial age. Nicolai, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-87584-407-8 .
  • Duchess Anna Amalia Library. Meissner, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87527-114-0 .
  • with Michael Mende: market halls. Nicolai , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89479-290-9 .
  • with Michel Maugé and Michel Astroh: concert halls. m: com Mannheimer Kongress und Touristik, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814220-0-9 .
  • with Enno Kaufhold (text): Berlin portraits - photographs. Self-published, 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-047049-3 (limited edition 500 copies).

literature

  • Katja Schulz: Manfred Hamm. A look at his photographic life's work. Greifswald 2010 (state examination thesis).
  • Ulla Heise: Hamm, Manfred . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 68, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23035-6 , p. 505.
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists. Part 1.
  • Thomas Wiegand and Manfred Heiting: Germany in a photo book. Steidl 2011.
  • Lynne Warren: Encyclopedia of Twenthieth-Century Photography. Routledge 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Hamm - photographer with passion, industrial culture 4.19, Klartext Verlag Essen 2019, pp. 40–41
personal data
SURNAME Hamm, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cainsdorf