Rudolf Hillebrand

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Rudolf Hillebrand (born August 31, 1954 in Warburg / Westf.) Is a German publisher , photographer , photo journalist and object artist .

education

From 1970 to 1972 Rudolf Hillebrand completed an apprenticeship as a wholesaler in the Düsseldorf photo wholesaler Höhn & Co. After completing his military service, he was employed in the sales department of his training company for a year. As a result, Hillebrand worked in various companies in the photo industry in field service, sales, purchasing, advertising and administration. a. at Fujifilm, Foto Koch and the Kaufring eG, all based in Düsseldorf.

Editorial activities

In 1981 Hillebrand switched to photo journalism and worked for twelve years as an editor at the Swiss publisher PHOTOGRAPHIE in the cities of Düsseldorf and Schaffhausen in its Düsseldorf branch for the magazines PHOTOGRAPHIE and FOTOHEFT. As editor-in-chief, Hillebrand was also editor-in-chief of the magazine FOTOHEFT from 1988 to 1990 . In 1992, Rudolf Hillebrand founded his own publishing house in Neuss, where he lived. In 1993 he launched the quarterly magazine PHOTO Deal , which is still the only commercially available photo magazine that deals with topics related to classic cameras, collecting photographica and historical subjects. In 2000, the magazine AKT & FOTO was published by Rudolf Hillebrand, with a focus on artistic nude photography. It was renamed FINE ART FOTO in 2003, keeping the quarterly publication frequency , and thematically expanded to include fine art photography in the areas of portrait, landscape, still life and conceptual photography. Since 2006, this magazine, which consists exclusively of extensive portfolios, has been published twice a year with an international focus with German-English portfolio texts.

Research work

In addition to his publishing activities, Rudolf Hillebrand devotes himself intensively to artistic photography in the field of nudes, still lifes, portraits, landscapes and conceptual topics, as well as object art, in particular the construction of miniature dioramas, assemblages and art cameras.

Act

On the basis of the intensive examination of artistic nude photography, for which he often used infrared film, Hillebrand worked in 1987 as one of three authors at the AKT photo school published by PHOTOGRAPHIE .

Hillebrand's practical experience from his own photographic work flowed into the years of editorial work on the two photo magazines Photographie and Fotoheft of the PHOTOGRAPHIE publishing house, in particular from working in the photo laboratory, dealing with alternative processes such as hand-coloring black and white photos, creative Polaroid techniques or the Infrared photography in artistic use.

Hillebrand has published in photo magazines such as PHOTOGRAPHIE Magazin, FOTOHEFT, Nikon News, photo sheets and is the author of numerous photo articles in German and European publications.

Publications

Individual works

Textbooks

The intensive occupation with artistic nude photography, often with the use of infrared film, led in 1987 to work at the AKT photo school published by PHOTOGRAPHIE , for which Hillebrand was one of three authors responsible. Equally interested in photo technology and applied photography, Hillebrand often incorporated practical experience from his own photographic work into his editorial contributions, in particular from working in the photo laboratory and alternative methods such as hand-coloring black and white photos, creative Polaroid techniques or infrared photography in artistic use. In 1992 he wrote his first own textbook INFRARED - Photography on a Different Wavelength for the book division of the PHOTOGRAPHIE publishing house (Schaffhausen and Düsseldorf) , which comprehensively deals with infrared photography in technology, science and research, but also in artistic use. On the basis of creative investigations of the then new camera generation Zoom-Kompakte by Josef H. Neumann , Zoomkompakte creatively appeared in 1994 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Japanese camera company Asahi Optical Joint Stock Co. aka Pentax in the Photographie publishing house (Schaffhausen). Rudolf Hillebrand gave an intensive presentation of the technical and historical development of the new zoom compacts at Pentax.

reference books

  • Kadlubek's camera catalog. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, Neuss, 1st edition 1995, ISBN 978-3-89506-134-9
  • Kadlubek's camera catalog. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, 2nd edition 1996, Neuss, ISBN 978-3-9811788-7-6
  • Kadlubek's camera catalog. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, 3rd edition 1998, ISBN 978-3-89506-997-0
  • Kadlubek's camera catalog. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, Neuss, 4th edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-89506-996-3
  • Kadlubeks camera catalog, travel camera, Praktiflex . with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, Neuss, 5th edition 2004, ISBN 978-3-89506-995-6
  • Kadlubek's lens catalog. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, 1st edition 2000, Neuss, ISBN 3-89506-195-6
  • Kadlubek's lens catalog. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, 2nd edition 2009, Neuss, ISBN 978-3-9811788-7-6
  • Voigtländer Classic Collection. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, Neuss 2002
  • MINOX Classic Camera Collection. with Günther Kadlubek, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, Neuss 2001 (new edition 2010)
  • Carl Zeiss camera register 1902–2012. with Bernd K. Otto, Verlag Rudolf Hillebrand, Neuss (2012), ISBN 978-3-9813746-4-3

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1988 Nikon Photo Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1990 Te Kijk Gallery, Apeldoorn

Prizes and awards

  • 1992: Kodak Photo Book Prize for INFRARED photography on a different wavelength
  • Appointment to the DGPh based in Cologne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Infrared files , portfolio in PHOTOGRAPHIE 4/1988, pages 77-82
  2. ^ AKT Fotoschule, Claus Militz, Adrian Bircher, Rudolf Hillebrand, Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1987.
  3. ↑ Coloring black and white In: FOTOHEFT 4/1989, pages 18–22
  4. ↑ Erotic subtly colored. Coloring of black and white nudes, FOTOHEFT 10/1992, pages 46–49
  5. ↑ Act on a different wavelength. Nude photography in infrared, FOTOHEFT 4/1991, pages 18-21
  6. ↑ INFRARED - photography on a different wavelength. Rudolf Hillebrand, Photographie Verlag, Schaffhausen 1992
personal data
SURNAME Hillebrand, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Warburg