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The Absolute Realist - Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967 (Paperback)
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The Absolute Realist - Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967 (Paperback)
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This annotated anthology presents the first English translation of
German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch's collected writings. A
towering figure in the history of photography, Albert
Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) has come to epitomize New Objectivity,
the neorealist movement in modernist literature, film, and the
visual arts recognized as the signature artistic style of Germany's
Weimar Republic. Today, his images are regularly exhibited and
widely considered key influences on contemporary photographers.
Whether they capture geometrically intricate cacti, flooded tidal
landscapes, stacks of raw materials, or imposing blast furnace
towers, Renger-Patzsch's photographs embody what his peer Hugo
Sieker termed "absolute realism," an approach predicated upon the
idea that photographers have one task: to exploit the camera's
unique capacity to document with uncompromising detail. Not only a
photographer, Renger-Patzsch was also an influential and lucid
writer who advocated his unique brand of uncompromising realism in
almost a half century's worth of articles, essays, lectures,
brochures, and unpublished manuscripts addressing photography,
technology, and modernity. Drawing on his papers at the Getty
Research Institute and other archives, The Absolute Realist unites
in one volume this skillful photographer's ideas about the defining
visual medium of modernity.
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