The World Is Beautiful

Albert Renger-Patzsch was a pioneering figure in the New-Objectivity movement 1920’s.  Rejecting the tenderness  and idealism of a previous generation, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) emerged as a tendency in German art, architecture and literature in the 1920’s.

In 1928 Renger-Patzsch published ‘The World is Beautiful’ which was a collection of 100 photographs whose rigorous sensitivity to form revealed patterns of beauty and order in the natural and man-made alike.  He was adapting a new and modern way of looking at the world using his work and this caused the book to establish Renger-Patzsch as one of the most Influential photographers of the 20th century.

My Own Response

 

This is a contact sheet of my own response to Renger-Patzsch.  These photographs I developed using manual focus on the camera which proved to be a little difficult for me however it produced some good outcomes, which I intend to experiment with during editing.

Experiments

Final Chosen Photograph

I chose this as my final photograph as I feel it was my most successful outcome both as a photograph itself and once it had been edited.  I feel it has the most inspiration from Renger-Patzsch and it was my closest representation to his work through my experiments and own work.