The Absolute Realist

Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967

Albert Renger-Patzsch, Daniel H Magilow

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Getty Research Institute,U.S.
03 January 2023

Photography & photographs; Individual photographers

"This annotated anthology presents the first English translation of German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch's collected writings.

A towering figure in the history of photography, Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) has come to epitomize New Objectivity, the neorealist movement in modernist literature, film, and the visual arts recognized as the signature artistic style of Germany's Weimar Republic. Today, his images are regularly exhibited and widely considered key influences on contemporary photographers. Whether they capture geometrically intricate cacti, flooded tidal landscapes, stacks of raw materials, or imposing blast furnace towers, Renger-Patzsch's photographs embody what his peer Hugo Sieker termed ""absolute realism,"" an approach predicated upon the idea that photographers have one task: to exploit the camera's unique capacity to document with uncompromising detail.

Not only a photographer, Renger-Patzsch was also an influential and lucid writer who advocated his unique brand of uncompromising realism in almost a half century's worth of articles, essays, lectures, brochures, and unpublished manuscripts addressing photography, technology, and modernity. Drawing on his papers at the Getty Research Institute and other archives, The Absolute Realist unites in one volume this skillful photographer's ideas about the defining visual medium of modernity."

By: Albert Renger-Patzsch
Translated by: Daniel H Magilow
Imprint: Getty Research Institute,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9781606067802
ISBN 10: 160606780X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel H. Magilow is professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Reviews for The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967

Daniel H. Magilow's careful translation and thorough annotation of Albert Renger-Patzsch's writings offer an invaluable invitation: For the very first time, we can discover one of the most influential photographers of the modern era as an eminent theorist and attentive critic. This excellent edition will undoubtedly advance our interest in a period when the art of photography became not just a subject for professionals but an affair for countless amateurs. -Steffen Siegel, editor of First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography; Albert Renger-Patzsch has long been known as a giant of early twentieth-century photography. Thanks to Daniel Magilow's deft editing and translations, an English-speaking public can now learn what a savvy critic and theorist of photography he was as well. -Pepper Stetler, author of Stop Reading! Look!: Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book