Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object

by Donald B. Kuspit

Book Overview

The great German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch was a contemporary of Moholy-Nagy and Brecht and a close friend of Hermann Hesse, yet his work is little known in the English-speaking world. Born in Wurzburg in 1897, Renger-Patzsch was a member of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"). His most famous book Die Welt ist schon (The World is Beautiful), published in 1928, immediately established him as one of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892362731
• ISBN13: 9780892362738
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.7" x 9.9"