About the German photographer, Arno FISCHER (1927-2011)
Arno FISCHER was a photographer and university lecturer (1985-1993 at the HGB Leipzig, from 1990-2000 at the FH Dortmund, then at the fas as well as the Ostkreuzschue in Berlin. He worked as a photographer and publicist for the magazine 'Sibylle' and other periodicals. His œuvre consists mainly of fashion and travel photographs, which are in the tradition of life photography. He was particularly interested in the state of society. In 2000 he was awarded the Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography (DGPh).
Photo books by and about the work of Arno FISCHER
'Polens Hauptstädte' (1974); 'Leningrad' (1981); 'Alt-Delhi / Neu-Delhi' (1983); 'New York. Ansichten' (1988); 'Photographien' (1997); 'Situation Berlin. 1953–1960' (2001); 'Der Garten' ('The Garden', 2007); 'Monografie' (2009); 'Das Pure Leben' (together with works by Sibylle BERGEMANN, Christian BORCHERT, Ute & Werner MAHLER, Roger MELIS, Helga PARIS, Evelyn RICHTER, Helfried STRAUSS, Ulrich WÜST a.o., 2014, 2020); 'Sibylle: Zeitschrift für Mode und Kultur 1956-1995' (2016, together with works by Sibylle BERGEMANN, Ute & Werner MAHLER, Roger MELIS, Günter RÖSSLER, Jim RAKETE, Evelin RICHTER, Ulrich WÜST a.o.); 'Eine Reise' (2022)