Kurt Wyss
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There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90 th birthday celebration in Bonn. The image, published in the magazine „Kristall”, shows nothing more than the left eye of the aged chancellor. The rest is covered by the portly body of a stranger. But this eye was already enough. The magazine photo engaged the reader in a dialogue. What really moved Adenauer on this winter day, what he saw or... - Exposition
Collective Exhibition « Portraits of the photographer » in Berlin
ANITA NEUGEBAUER – photo art basel.
Portrait of the Photographer, Gallery Owner and Collector
‘I wanted to get to know the people who reveal my inner life with their pictures.’
Anita Neugebauer (born in 1916 in Berlin) studied photography at the Contempora – Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst in Berlin in the 1930s. She is among the avantgarde of photo gallery owners and her collection includes masterpieces classic 20th-century photography. Her gallery photo art basel (1976 – 2004) was one of the first to promote the public presentation of photography at a time when it was not yet being collected as art or exhibited in museums. Neugebauer’s photo exhibitions with Robert Doisneau, Gisèle Freund, Ruth Mayerson Gilbert, René M&aum... - Exposition
La passion pour les artistes du reporter Kurt Wyss
Le merveilleux photographe Kurt Wyss
" De la population de Bâle j´ai une idée très arrêtée et c´est qu´elle est faite de gens singuliers. Je sais bien qu´il faut se garder de généraliser trop vite mais tout de même tous les Bâlois que j´ai connus (un certain bon nombre) étaient personnages singuliers, et Kurt Wyss en est un aussi.
Concernant sa configuration physique je dirai qu´il est svelte et de mouvement rapide, avec un visage fortement empreint d´honnêteté. Concernant l´air d´honnêteté je dirai qu´on le rencontre chez les gens assez rarement – hors de Bâle du moins- et concernant la caractère d´honnêteté et de v&...
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There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90 th birthday celebration in Bonn. The image, published in the magazine „Kristall”, shows nothing more than the left eye of the aged chancellor. The rest is covered by the portly body of a stranger. But this eye was already enough. The magazine photo engaged the reader in a dialogue. What really moved Adenauer on this winter day, what he saw or...
ANITA NEUGEBAUER – photo art basel.
Portrait of the Photographer, Gallery Owner and Collector
‘I wanted to get to know the people who reveal my inner life with their pictures.’
Anita Neugebauer (born in 1916 in Berlin) studied photography at the Contempora – Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst in Berlin in the 1930s. She is among the avantgarde of photo gallery owners and her collection includes masterpieces classic 20th-century photography. Her gallery photo art basel (1976 – 2004) was one of the first to promote the public presentation of photography at a time when it was not yet being collected as art or exhibited in museums. Neugebauer’s photo exhibitions with Robert Doisneau, Gisèle Freund, Ruth Mayerson Gilbert, René M&aum...
Le merveilleux photographe Kurt Wyss
" De la population de Bâle j´ai une idée très arrêtée et c´est qu´elle est faite de gens singuliers. Je sais bien qu´il faut se garder de généraliser trop vite mais tout de même tous les Bâlois que j´ai connus (un certain bon nombre) étaient personnages singuliers, et Kurt Wyss en est un aussi.
Concernant sa configuration physique je dirai qu´il est svelte et de mouvement rapide, avec un visage fortement empreint d´honnêteté. Concernant l´air d´honnêteté je dirai qu´on le rencontre chez les gens assez rarement – hors de Bâle du moins- et concernant la caractère d´honnêteté et de v&...