Susanne Schapowalow

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Susanne Schapowalow (born January 29, 1922 in Berlin ) is a German photographer who became known for her pictures of music idols in the post-war years .

Life

Susanne Schapowalow was born as the daughter of a businessman and a photographer and grew up in Berlin-Friedenau . She started taking photos with her mother at a young age. In 1935 the family moved to Hamburg , where Susanne Schapowalow graduated from school with a secondary school leaving certificate . Three years later she met her future husband, the Russian icon painter Boris Schapovalov, on a trip to Yugoslavia and began a seven-year correspondence with him.

In 1941 Schapovalov attended the commercial college with a focus on English and Spanish. She then completed a three-year photographer training in Olga Linckelmann's studio on Jungfernstieg in Hamburg. At the beginning of 1944 she began to work for the documentary film company "Roto-Film", whose rooms were bombed at the end of the year. In 1945 she married Boris Shapovalov. The couple had a daughter; the marriage was short-lived. Between 1946 and 1949, Shapovalov began working as a freelance photographer. After working for the Telegraph in Hamburg in 1949, she returned to self-employment in 1950 and concentrated on jazz, architecture and new music. She photographed for magazines such as “ Der Spiegel ”, “ GEO ”, “ Kristall ”, “ Stern ” and “Constanze” as well as well-known advertising agencies. “The NDR opened many doors for me. I did things that you couldn't get anywhere else, ”she said in 2010.

In 1980 she founded the "Bildagentur Susanne Schapowalow" with a focus on "tourism worldwide" in Hamburg, where she signed more than 650 photographers. In 2003, Shapovalov sold the agency. She lives in Malente (Schleswig-Holstein).

Works

Chet Baker
Susanne Schapowalow , 1955
photography
Camera Work Gallery, Berlin , 2009

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As a freelance photographer, Susanne Schapowalow shot music idols such as Louis Armstrong , Chet Baker , Fred Bunge , Miles Davis , Duke Ellington , Quincy Jones , Eartha Kitt and Nina Simone . Film stars such as Orson Welles were also photographed by her, as did the publisher Ernst Rowohlt , the Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer , the composer Igor Stravinsky and the actress and singer Marlene Dietrich .

Susanne Schapowalow's photography is characterized by its closeness to the action. The photographer accompanied the artists on their tours, their photos show them at their respective appearances, with the audience and behind the stage.

Exhibitions

For the first time since the 1950s, the photographs that had previously been shown exclusively in newspapers were exhibited in the Camera Work gallery in Berlin at the beginning of 2009. Susanne Schapowalow showed her photographs in a joint exhibition in the Eutin district building and in Scharbeutz together with paintings by her daughter Natascha Brüggemann-Neynaber. In 2010 an exhibition followed in Malente. In the early summer of 2012, her photographs will be part of the exhibition 60 Years of Jazz at NDR in the Levantehaus in Hamburg. Furthermore, over 100 photographs can be viewed in the “Ellington” hotel in Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The eye of jazz In: Spiegel online
  2. ↑ Ursula Konlage: The photographer of the jazz stars In: Lübecker Nachrichten of April 18, 2010, p. 19
  3. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: A dance with the camera in: Spiegel Online of 20 January 2009
  4. ↑ Camera Work ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / camerawork.de
  5. ↑ Artists from all over Ostholstein meet in: Lübecker Nachrichten , Ostholstein-Süd edition, from May 26, 2009, p. 13
  6. ↑ Mother and daughter present Albert Schweitzer and Louis Armstrong In: Lübecker Nachrichten , Ostholstein-Süd edition of June 12, 2009, p. 13
  7. ↑ See press release by NDR
personal data
SURNAME Schapovalov, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin