Deutsch
English
Background information
"During the first two post-war decades, before the triumph of television, the circus experienced its heyday alongside the cinema in Western Europe. It brought sensations, entertainment and a bit of the big wide world to the smaller and larger cities, some of which were still marked by war destruction and reconstruction: Sarrasani, Krone and Hagenbeck were the glamorous names.
Content
The photo book 'Ohne Vorstellung. Circusfotografien von 1950 bis 1970' by Heinz NEUMÄRKER (1935-2017) documents in a selection of over one hundred and twenty motifs the so-called 'backstage area' around the life and work of the showmen: the transportation of the circus wagons, the unloading of the animals, the tent construction, carried out by muscular fellow travelers. These are just some of the themes that the sequence of images chronologically tells from the arrival of the circus in a city to the start of the performance. The photographic position of Heinz NEUMÄRKER lies between the affectionate approach of a CHARGESHEIMER and the precise recording of situations of a Henri CARTIER-BRESSON. The black-and-white photographs also tell a piece of cultural history. Only a few motifs have been published to date; the photographer took the pictures for his personal circus archive, making this volume the first publication to show his photographs in their entirety.
The texts in the photo volume were written by the photo historian Klaus Honnef and Urs Odermatt, son of the Swiss photographer Arnold ODERMATT, who also published and publicized the oeuvre of his father - a policeman by profession." (© Vision eins, 2023)
About German photographer, Heinz NEUMÄRKER (1935-2017)
Photo books by Heinz NEUMÄRKER