GOSLICH, Marie - Ein Leben hinter Glas / A World Behind Glas(s)

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The work of Marie GOSLICH has already been published several times (2005, 2008, 2013) in illustrated books. Here, however, in 'A Life Behind Glass', the images are so brilliantly rendered that the additional financial outlay due is well worth it.
"Marie GOSLICH, born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1859, first worked as a 'writer and editor' after detours. This job title, which can be found in the Berlin residents' directory, would be considerable enough for a woman of her time. In order to be able to illustrate her reportages independently, Marie GOSLICH also learned the photographer's trade at the age of 44 and thus advanced to become one of the first professional female photographers ever. Part of her estate, long thought to have been lost, was rediscovered in 2008 in an inn in Geltow on Lake Schwielow. Some 400 glass negatives have survived the turmoil of two world wars to this day. Marie GOSLICH's works mainly illustrate social and societal grievances. In the numerous, sometimes radical articles she wrote and illustrated, she addressed the causes of hardship and suffering. Repeatedly she denounced the gap between rich and poor, portrayed itinerant people, street vendors, beggars, rag pickers, and tinkers. Her empathy toward her chosen subjects is evident in every image, making her photographs deeply personal and moving. This book of photographs, 'HinterGlas,' makes Marie GOSLICH's work comprehensively available for the first time 100 years after its creation and celebrates the photographer as a courageous pioneer and grande dame of German socially critical photojournalism." (Publisher's text, © Kettler Verlag, 2016)

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About the German photographer Marie GOSLICH.

Photo books on the photographic work of Marie GOSLICH