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"Arno FISCHER occupies an important place in the history of 20th century German photography. He was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. During his career, he worked across photographic genres: he photographed fashion models on the streets of Eastern European cities as well as ordinary citizens and their daily lives in the Eastern Bloc. With his camera in hand, he traveled to Equatorial Guinea, India, the Soviet Union, and the United States. When he wasn't roaming the streets, he was an active member of DIREKT, a group founded in East Berlin in 1965 that significantly influenced the diversification of East Germany's visual culture in the 1970s and 1980s. Together with his wife, the photographer Sibylle BERGEMANN, Arno FISCHER also maintained contacts with international photographers. Colleagues such as Robert FRANK, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON and René BURRI were always happy to visit them in their apartment on Schiffbauerdamm. As a lecturer, he also supervised students, first at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts and later, after the fall of the Wall, at the Ostkreuz School of Photography and Design." (© Snoeck, 2022)Content
The photobook 'A Journey' contains works by Arno FISCHER, which he took on his many travels and which until then lay dormant in hisArchive and thus remained unpublished. The catalog volume for the current exhibition in Kummerow Castle (Mecklemburg-Western Pomerania) groups the photographs, most of which were made in color, so there is also a chapter with his fashion photographs as well as his Polaroid pictures (shown in tableau form).
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