Walter Vogel (photographer)

Walter Vogel (* 1932 in Düsseldorf ) is a German photographer .

Life

Vogel has been taking photographs since 1950. In 1952 he began an apprenticeship as a machine fitter. After training as an engineer until 1957 and working for seven years as a designer and technical director in a chemical company, he studied photography with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School in Essen from 1963 to 1968 .

Since 1954 he has published in magazines and in 1964 was awarded a prize in the World Press Photo competition. Vogel has been working as a freelance photojournalist since 1968. a. for Zeit-Magazin , and as an advertising photographer. Between 1977 and 2002 he lived in Frankfurt am Main .

He became known with portraits of Düsseldorf artists and other cultural workers, among them Joseph Beuys and Pina Bausch , as well as with photo reports about the Ruhr area . Travel reports led him to Italy, Africa and Asia. From 1993 he published a number of essay-like photo books, e.g. B. on the topic of coffee - café.

Publications

• Espresso. Caffè bars in Italy . Ed. Brandstätter, Vienna around 1993, ISBN 3-85447-456-3
• The beauties of the night. Show stars and travesty . Brandstätter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85447-539-X
• Italian caffè bars . 20 duotone postcards. Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 1995, ISBN 3-931043-09-6
• The cafe. From the wealth of European coffee house culture . Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-591-8
• Italy. Travel to a land of images . Brandstätter, Vienna and Munich 1999, ISBN 3-85498-003-5
• Pina . Quadriga, [Berlin] 2000, ISBN 3-88679-344-3
• Germany. The early years 1951–1969 . Brandstätter, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85498-195-3
• Yes I am. The cheerful and sad story of Ted Klein, which began and ended in Frankfurt, photographed and recorded by Walter Vogel . Baumann, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-941610-00-2
• Beediman. Portraits from everyday life in India . (Edition Refugium; 20). Reche, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz 2011, ISBN 978-3-929566-95-6

Collections

• Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
• German Historical Museum, Berlin
• Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
• City Museum Düsseldorf

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library
• About the award of the Art Prize of the Artists of the Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 2012 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )