Ulrich Mack (photographer)

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Ulrich Mack (born July 19, 1934 in Glasehausen , Eichsfeld ) is a German photographer .

life and work

Ulrich Mack was the sixth of nine children of the teacher Ulrich Mack and his wife Gertrud.

In 1945 he fled Thorn (West Prussia). From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a miner in the Gedinge and attended high school. Between 1956 and 1962 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Alfred Mahlau (painting) and Eberhard Troeger (photography). During the semester break he worked as a fisherman in Spain and a lumberjack in Sweden.

In 1962 he worked as a freelance photographer, but one year later he became a photojournalist for Quick magazine in Munich and also for twen a year later , under the art director Willy Fleckhaus . During the time, Mack portrayed a number of well-known writers, politicians, artists and musicians. His international breakthrough came in 1964 with the picture essay about wild horses in Kenya, published in twen under the title Mondo Cavallo . For this he received first prize at the World Press Photo Award in the Most Artistic Press Photo category . In 1967 he moved to Stern in Hamburg. In 1968, Mack visited the North Sea island of Pellworm for the first time as part of a Stern report on "Poets and their Paradise: Siegfried Lenz - Pellworm ". From 1973 he worked as a freelance photographer in Hamburg, produced films for the NDR and made advertising photos.

He began teaching at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences in 1975 and was appointed professor a year later. Until 1999 he was professor for visual communication. In 1977 he founded the summer academy in the Abbaye du Gard near Amiens, France . Until 2001, courses were held there annually under his direction, with many representatives of the photography scene at the time.

In 1978 he started his long-term documentary about Pellworm, its landscape and its people. This resulted u. a. the cycle of works “Stille Weite Ferne”, landscapes printed using the dye transfer process. An artistic sabbatical semester followed in 1984, which Mack spent eight months on Harkers Island , North Carolina , with the aim of supplementing the study begun on Pellworm with a counterpart in the USA . The resulting comparative work led to traveling exhibitions in Germany and the USA. In 1988 he received a visiting professorship at Boston University at the College of Communication. In 1993 he created extensive documentation about the Holm , a traditional fishing district on the edge of Schleswig. In 1995, 1997 and 1999 he was artist in residence at Boston University.

Ulrich Mack lives in Hamburg with his wife Katrin.

Awards

  • 1964: World Press Photo Award, 1st prize, Most Artistic Press Photo
  • 1973: Several gold medals from the Art Directors Club
  • 1993: Award of the book art foundation for "The Holm - a family album"
  • 1994: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2009: German Photo Book Prize in Gold from the Book Art Foundation for the publication "Ruhrgebiet"
  • 2010: Art Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Economy

Exhibitions (selection)

  • "Pellworm", Hamburg - BAT Interversa Art Foyer and "Pellworm", Munich - Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum, 1981
  • "Inselmenschen", Charleroi (Belgium) - Musée de la Photographie, 1989
  • "Inselmenschen", Pellworm Island Museum, 1991
  • "Mack 60", Hamburg - BAT Interversa Art Foyer, 1994
  • "Mack. 60 Photographs", Boston, MA (USA) - Boston University, George Sherman Union Art Gallery, 1995
  • "Inselmenschen. Pellworm / Harkers Island", Boston, MA (USA) - Boston University, 808 Gallery, kick-off of the traveling exhibition through several US states, 2000
  • "Inselmenschen. Pellworm / Harkers Island", Cismar - Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Kloster Cismar, 2001
  • "Inselmenschen. Pellworm / Harkers Island", Cappenberg - Schloss Cappenberg and "Discoveries", Waltham, MA (USA) - Panopticon Gallery, 2002
  • "Ulrich Mack - Weite", Husum - Castle in front of Husum, 2004
  • "Hildegard Knef", Berlin - Film Museum and "Industrial Landscapes", Münster - Art Museum Pablo Picasso
  • "Françoise Gilot", Münster - Pablo Picasso Art Museum / "Françoise Gilot", Ludwigsburg - Ludwigsburg Art Association / "Françoise Gilot", Chemnitz - Chemnitz Art Collections / "Hommage à Albert Renger-Patzsch", Berlin - Argus fotokunst gallery, 2006
  • "Inselmenschen. Pellworm / Harkers Island", Leipzig - Grassi Museum for Applied Arts, 2007
  • "Alexander Calder en Touraine", Tours (France) - Château de Tours, 2008
  • "Ruhrgebiet", Berlin - Galerie argus fotokunst and "Action and Contemplation - Five Decades of Photography", Hamburg - Chamber of Commerce, 2009
  • "Ruhrgebiet", Recklinghausen - Sparkasse Vest / "Ulrich Mack: Photography 1958 - 2001", Schleswig - Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, 2010
  • "Kennedy in Berlin", Berlin - Willy-Brandt-Haus / "Kennedy in Berlin", Munich - Pressehaus Bayerstraße / "Kennedy, Ruhr area, landscapes", Cologne, in focus gallery
  • "Silence - Wide - Distance - Proximity", Eisenach - Thuringian State Museum / "Zen, Stille, Weite", Heiligenstadt - Theodor Storm Museum / "Wideness and Proximity", Schleswig - Gallery of Classical Modernism, Rolf Horn Foundation, Gottorf Castle "Ferne", Husum - Nissenhaus, 2014
  • "Mack - the retrospective", Frankfurt, Leica Gallery

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Press Photo Award, 1964, 1st prize, Most Artistic Press Photo
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasehausen , Eichsfeld , Thuringia