Awards
Selected title German Photo Book Award 2014
Exhibitions
Forum Internationale Photographie (FIP) der
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim
24.03.2013 – 12.01.2014
Robert Häusser Im Auftrag… Fotografien aus Industrie und Handwerk
Robert Häusser (b. 1924 in Stuttgart) is regarded as a seminal figure in contemporary photography. He is one of the few German photographers who managed in the postwar period to develop a signature style and achieve international acclaim. His pictures were already on display in museums in the 1950s and 60s, at a time when photography had not yet attained the status it enjoys today as an artistic genre in its own right. This publication presents around 100 works Häusser carried out on commission for various branches of industry and professional associations. Industrial architecture is translated here into masterful black-and-white compositions that display a clear rhythm of light-and-dark contrasts and serially repeated shapes without however succumbing to formalist artifice. Häusser captures with his camera arresting images of people at work, taken from unusual angles and viewpoints. All works come from the Robert Häusser Archive at Forum Internationale Photographie, which holds Häusser's legacy of more than 60,000 negatives, photographs and documents. Häusser has received a number of honors for his work, including the Hasselblad Award, which is considered the "Nobel Prize of Photography."
Hardcover
22 x 24,5 cm
120 pages
124 duotone illustrations
German
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-389-1
2013
Artists:
Editors:
Claude W. Sui, Alfried Wieczorek
Product information "Robert Häusser"
Robert Häusser (b. 1924 in Stuttgart) is regarded as a seminal figure in contemporary photography. He is one of the few German photographers who managed in the postwar period to develop a signature style and achieve international acclaim. His pictures were already on display in museums in the 1950s and 60s, at a time when photography had not yet attained the status it enjoys today as an artistic genre in its own right. This publication presents around 100 works Häusser carried out on commission for various branches of industry and professional associations. Industrial architecture is translated here into masterful black-and-white compositions that display a clear rhythm of light-and-dark contrasts and serially repeated shapes without however succumbing to formalist artifice. Häusser captures with his camera arresting images of people at work, taken from unusual angles and viewpoints. All works come from the Robert Häusser Archive at Forum Internationale Photographie, which holds Häusser's legacy of more than 60,000 negatives, photographs and documents. Häusser has received a number of honors for his work, including the Hasselblad Award, which is considered the "Nobel Prize of Photography."
Hardcover
22 x 24,5 cm
120 pages
124 duotone illustrations
German
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-389-1
2013
Artists:
Editors:
Claude W. Sui, Alfried Wieczorek
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