Max Scheler
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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
Max Scheler - From the Müggelsee to Hollywood
Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST presents the rediscovery of the German photographer Max Scheler (1928-2003). Scheler, once named Germanys most famous photojournalist of his time, published in Heute, Look, Picture Post, Paris Match, Epoca, Münchner Illustrierten and stern. For his photo essays he travelled around the world for over 25 years.
Max Scheler had the ability to pay attention to the nuances in dealing with people. His portraits of celebrities or historical moments are characterized by this talent. He noticed small, seemingly insignificant gestures from the perspective of detached serenity. Nevertheless, his competence and ability to empathize with his subjects and an intense interest in the psychology of people already characterized his earliest essays for the magazine Heute. In a portrait of his oeuvre in... - Exposition
From Konrad A. to Jackie O., Pictures from Germany, China and the USA - Max Scheler
The approximately 140 items showcased in the exhibition 'Max Scheler – From Konrad A. to Jackie O. – Pictures from Germany, China, and the USA' represent the first large cross-section of the works of this prominent photojournalist.
Max Scheler was a post-war photographer of international renown, a junior member of the MAGNUM agency and, since 1959, one of the premier photo contributors to the magazine Stern. In 1975, after retiring from his career as photographer, he assumed the position of photo editor for the newly founded magazine GEO.
As a student of Herbert List, Scheler embarks on his career in the Germany of the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) in the 1950s. As part of his political reporting, he covered the Quemoy crisis in China and Taiwan and Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution of... - Exposition
Streetlife Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.
During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand events were done by Alfred Eisenstaedt or Tim Gidal. Outstanding photographers working for the illustrated magazines "Life" and "Stern", such as Jerry Cooke, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses and Thomas Hoepker continued in this tradition.
Again and again public streets became a stage for crucial contemporary historical happenings: so for example in the photo series, shot by Roman Vishniac of the Schtetln of Polish Jews, before their exp...
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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...
Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST presents the rediscovery of the German photographer Max Scheler (1928-2003). Scheler, once named Germanys most famous photojournalist of his time, published in Heute, Look, Picture Post, Paris Match, Epoca, Münchner Illustrierten and stern. For his photo essays he travelled around the world for over 25 years.
Max Scheler had the ability to pay attention to the nuances in dealing with people. His portraits of celebrities or historical moments are characterized by this talent. He noticed small, seemingly insignificant gestures from the perspective of detached serenity. Nevertheless, his competence and ability to empathize with his subjects and an intense interest in the psychology of people already characterized his earliest essays for the magazine Heute. In a portrait of his oeuvre in...
The approximately 140 items showcased in the exhibition 'Max Scheler – From Konrad A. to Jackie O. – Pictures from Germany, China, and the USA' represent the first large cross-section of the works of this prominent photojournalist.
Max Scheler was a post-war photographer of international renown, a junior member of the MAGNUM agency and, since 1959, one of the premier photo contributors to the magazine Stern. In 1975, after retiring from his career as photographer, he assumed the position of photo editor for the newly founded magazine GEO.
As a student of Herbert List, Scheler embarks on his career in the Germany of the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) in the 1950s. As part of his political reporting, he covered the Quemoy crisis in China and Taiwan and Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution of...
Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.
During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand events were done by Alfred Eisenstaedt or Tim Gidal. Outstanding photographers working for the illustrated magazines "Life" and "Stern", such as Jerry Cooke, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses and Thomas Hoepker continued in this tradition.
Again and again public streets became a stage for crucial contemporary historical happenings: so for example in the photo series, shot by Roman Vishniac of the Schtetln of Polish Jews, before their exp...