Faces - the power of the human visage : Helmar Lerski and portrait photography between the wars / edited by Walter Moser ; with a foreword by Klaus Albrecht Schröder and essays by Elizabeth Cronin [and five others]
"Starting with helmar Lerski's exemplary photo series Metamorphosis through Light from 1935-1936, this volume presents portraits from the period of the Weimar Republic. During the 1920s and '30s, photographers radically revised conventional notions of the portrait. No longer were phot...
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| Other title: | Helmar Lerski and portrait photography between the wars. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Munich : Vienna :
Hirmer ; Albertina,
[2021]
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| Series: | Ausstellung der Albertina ;
555. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Klaus Albrecht Schröder
- Role playing through costume, makeup, and light: Helmar Lerski and the renewal of the portrait / Astrid Mahler
- Lerski's Metamorphosis: mandate and model / Matthew S. Witkovsky
- Metamorphosis through light: Helmar Lerski's photographs as experiments for film / Walter Moser
- "'Abstract' landscapes of strange charm": on Helmar Lerski's fragmentation of the face / Monika Faber
- Written on their faces: on the dialectic of the "Training Manual" and the determinacy of people in August Sander's work / Florian Ebner
- The face(s) of people: Rudolf Koppitz, Erna Lendvai-Dircksen, and Erich Retzlaff / Elizabeth Cronin.