Background information
"An autodidact developed her own position: Aenne BIERMANN's modern picture style brought together lay art and avant-garde. Aenne BIERMANN (1898–1933) was one of the big names in photography in the 1920s and 1930s. In contrast to fellow photographers such as Florence HENRI, Germaine KRULL or Lucia MOHOLY, she neither received any artistic training nor did she travel in the avant-garde circles of the city centers - and although she only photographed for a few years, Aenne BIERMANN developed her own, significantly modern image style, which she quickly achieved Established time as a representative of contemporary avant-garde photography. Aenne BIERMANN pointed her camera at plants, things, people and everyday situations. Using clear structures, precise compositions with light and contrast, and narrow picture sections, she elicited a special poetry from the motifs of her personal environment and, as she wrote in 1930, conveyed a 'familiarity with things'.
Content
This monograph, 'Aenne Biermann. Fotografin' presents Aenne BIERMANN's work as an example of modern trends beyond the centers of the avant-garde and focuses on the interrelations between lay art and avant-garde photography in the 1920s as well as the self-image of bourgeois women in relation to artistic production and individual developments." (free translated publisher's note , © Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020)
About German photographer, Aenne BIERMANN (1898-1933)
Photo books by as well as on the work of Aenne BIERMANN
- Photographer(s)
- Aenne BIERMANN, GER
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Thomas Seelig, Olivier Lugon, Stefanie Odenthal, Rainer Stamm, Katharina Täschner, Anna Volz
- Book design
- Nicola REITER
- Format
- Pb., 21 x 28 x 2 cm., 184 pp., 68 color & 35 b/w ills.
- Language(s)
- German
- Year of Release
- 2020
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess, CH
- Print run details
- 1st print run