The new album Aperture allows publishers to learn more about one of the key movements in modern art

American Foundation for Aperture, publishes the influential journal and books on photography, has released a very interesting album dedicated to the phenomenon called "Düsseldorf School". These authors whose works publisher Lothar Schirmer (Lothar Schirmer) calls in the preface "artistic miracle ', made a kind of revolution, finally securing a photograph of the status of" great art ". All of them at different times studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under the famous photographer Bernd Becher (Bernd Becher).

book tells of artists such as Lorenz Berges (Laurenz Berges), Elger Esser (Elger Esser), Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky), Candida Höfer (Candida Höfer), Axel Hütte (Axel Hütte), Simon Niveg (Simone Nieweg), Thomas Ruff (Thomas Ruff), Jorg Sasse (Jörg Sasse), Thomas Struth ( Thomas Struth) and Petra Wunderlich (Petra Wunderlich). This world-recognized masters pofvivshiesya on the art scene in the period, which can be safely called critical in the development of photography. In Europe, as in other parts of the world, this art has never been considered equal to their "big brothers" - painting and sculpture, in addition, in the era of the Third Reich picture was intensively used by Nazi propaganda, which is why interest in her at the post-war German artists was very low. Bernd Becher and his wife, Hilla, have gained prominence in 1970 thanks to its excellent industrial landscapes, have become the unofficial leader of the new movement, "revived" picture in Germany.

styles and subjects from representatives of the "Dusseldorf School" is very different. How, for example, you can compare photos of interiors library, performed by Candida Höfer, with the monumental landscape Axel Hütte or pornographic pictures, found on a computer and processed by Thomas Raff? The curator of the Art Museum Bonn, Stefan Gronert (Stefan Gronert), written for the album essay argues that his goal was not to identify some common features, but rather emphasize the uniqueness of each artist's mannerisms. For the creative development of each of them took place in an environment that encouraged experimentation, not conformity. The main thing that unites dyusseldorftsev "- is their devotion to photography.

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Source: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru