Max Jacoby

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Max Jacoby , later Max-Moshe Jacoby (born June 8, 1919 in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein ; died March 15, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German photographer .

Life

Grave site, Stubenrauchstrasse 43–45, in Berlin-Friedenau

Max Jacoby grew up in Koblenz, where his parents owned a department store. In the mid-1930s he moved to Berlin in order to evade the pressure of racist persecution at school. In 1937 Jacoby was able to emigrate to Buenos Aires . He worked first as a sales representative, then as an assistant to the photographer George Friedman. In 1941 he started his own business, working for magazines and advertising agencies in New York and South America. In 1951 he co-founded the group of photographers Group of Ten / La Carpeta de los Diez , which shaped modern South American photography. In 1957 he returned to Berlin. His future wife, the actress and director Hilla Jacoby (1922-2017) helped him to get closer to the Germans again. Another decisive factor for him, the now messianic Jew , was his turn to Jesus Christ .

Works by Max Jacoby have been shown in numerous international photo shows such as the 1966 World Photography Exhibition , “On the Way to Paradise” and “The Children of the World” (1968).

His grave is in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin.

Solo exhibitions

  • Buenos Aires, 1948 and 1956
  • Galleria il diaframma, Milan, 1969
  • Photo gallery “Die Brücke”, Vienna, 1971
  • The photographer's gallery, London, 1978
  • Argus fotokunst gallery, Berlin, 1999
  • State Museum Koblenz , 2003
  • Argus fotokunst gallery, Berlin, 2005
  • Argus fotokunst gallery, Berlin, 2009

Publications

(from 1978 together with Hilla Jacoby)

  • Symposium of European Sculptors 1961–1962 , 1963
  • Käthe Kollwitz: the sculptural work , 1967
  • Berlin: Impressions , 1968
  • Riemenschneider , 1968
  • Shalom: Impressions from the Holy Land / The Land of Israel , 1978 (With an essay by Heinrich Böll )
  • Sweden , 1978
  • Hallelujah Jerusalem: with texts from the Holy Scriptures , 1980
  • New York: Portrait of a Cosmopolitan City , 1981
  • Jesus Christ, hope for the 80s: photo documentation of the Berlin Confessing Days '81 , 1981
  • We live in a village: 1 week with Kaija , 1981
  • The Jews - God's People , 1983
  • Love your neighbor , 1984
  • Fear not , 1985
  • I am with you in 1985
  • So We Can Live: The 10 Commandments , 1987
  • The miracle Israel / Israel - the miracle , 1988
  • On the road with Jesus: a photo tour of the Holy Land , 1990
  • Next year in Jerusalem , 1994
  • Picture journey through the biblical land , 1997 (With a foreword by Teddy Kollek )
  • The photographer Max Jacoby: Pictures from the 60s and 70s. Catalog for the special exhibition of the same name at the Landesmuseum Koblenz , 2003 ISBN 3-93569016-9

Honors

  • Gold medal, Art Directors Club, Buenos Aires 1955
  • Grand Prix, Asahi world contest, Tokyo 1964
  • Obelisk of the "Photokina", Cologne 1976
  • Culture Prize of the City of Koblenz , 1987

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personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacoby, Max-Moshe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2009
Place of death Berlin