Wilfried Bauer (photographer)

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Wilfried Bauer (born September 21, 1944 in Ingelheim am Rhein , † December 5, 2005 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer .

Life

Wilfried Bauer came into contact with photography at an early age through his parents, who owned a photo shop in Kandel . After an apprenticeship as a photographer with his father Jakob Bauer, he was assistant to photographer Robert Häusser in Mannheim from 1964 to 1968 . From 1969 he worked as a permanent photographer at ZEITmagazin of the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 1976 on he worked as a freelancer and was one of the most sought-after German reportage photographers. Many of his large photo series were published in the magazines GEO , Stern , FAZ-Magazin , Merian and Der Spiegel .

Wilfried Bauer committed suicide on December 5, 2005 at the age of 61. His archive is kept by the FC Gundlach Foundation in Hamburg.

“Wilfried Bauer was a sensitive loner, an individualist, in the language of his pictures. He didn't need sensations to create unforgettable and unusual pictures, especially of people, children or nature. Plants were living beings to him like humans.

[...] He loved the short focal lengths. The shorter the better. This enabled him to make physical contact with the people in front of the camera, he could touch them, they crawled into his camera. Every distance between them and the stranger, the observer, dissolved.

[…] It was not just the tragic death of Wilfried Bauer that casts a spotlight on the situation of an age group of photographers whose working conditions have changed dramatically with the advance of digital working methods in editorial offices and agencies. There are also hardly any long-term relationships and collaboration with editorial offices. "

- From the obituary for Wilfried Bauer from FC Gundlach in the Hamburger Abendblatt

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  • Gorki Park: garden on the Moscow River. In: Geo-Magazin. , Hamburg 1979,10, pp. 36-56. ISSN  0342-8311
  • Federal Chancellery: Are you in power? In: Geo-Magazin , Hamburg 1979, 12, pp. 36–60. ISSN  0342-8311
  • Dnieper: grief with Batyushka. In: Geo-Magazin , Hamburg 1980,1, pp. 120-144. Photos for the informative experience report. ISSN  0342-8311
  • Lübeck: Where 15,000 live in the memorial. In: Geo-Magazin , Hamburg 1980, 2, pp. 112-136. Photos from Manfred Sack's report. ISSN  0342-8311
  • Trees: Germany's green patriarchs. In: Geo-Magazin , Hamburg 1980, 5, pp. 128–150. Photos for the informative report. ISSN  0342-8311

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personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingelheim am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2005
Place of death Hamburg