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Albert Renger-Patzsch

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Albert Renger-Patzsch

Albert Renger-Patzsch, born on June 22, 1897 was a German photographer who was heavily associated with the New Objectivity. Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg, Germany, and began taking photographs by the age of twelve. After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at Dresden Technical College. In the early 1920s he worked as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a freelancer. In 1925, publishing a book, the choir stalls of Cappenberg. He had his first museum exhibition in 1927.

A second book followed in 1928, Die Welt ist schön (The World is Beautiful). This, his best-known book, is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations, the intent being to create beautiful photographs out of everyday items. The book’s title was chosen by his publisher; Renger-Patzsch’s preferred title for the collection was Die Dinge.

In its sharply focused on the newly emerging style of the time, The New Objectivity that flourished in the arts in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Like Edward Weston in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the value of photography was in being able to capture the world in a way which displays all the textures and feelings that come along with it, and to represent the essence of an object. He wrote: “The secret of a good photograph—which, like a work of art, can have aesthetic qualities—is its realism … Let us therefore leave art to artists and endeavour to create, with the means peculiar to photography and without borrowing from art, photographs which will last because of their photographic qualities.”

Patzsch preferred to photograph items over people, focusing mainly on very ordinary everyday items but captured in a way which makes them extraordinary. A lot of his work also focuses on pattern and rhythm. The plants he photographs are often geometric and contain a lot regular pattern.

Among his works of the 1920s are Echeoeria (1922) and Viper’s Head. During the 1930s Renger-Patzsch made photographs for industry and advertising. His archives were destroyed during the Second World War. In 1944 he moved to Wamel, Möhnesee, where he lived the rest of his life.

ANALYSIS OF HIS WORK:

I have chosen and compare and analyse these two photos from Albert Renger-Patzsch’s work. Both of these photos include the presence of organic items, plants in this instance. Both have very clear and geometric shapes, with repeating patterns of forms. The focal point of the dandelion flower is the round and even tip of the stem, from which a repeating pattern of seeds come from. On the other hand, the image on the right lacks any noticeable focal point. Both images are very dramatic in nature, with deep and dark shadows being cast from the shapes of the two plants. The image on the right is very exposed, and the highlights are very strong, whereas the image on the left has more subtle highlights having an overall dark tone all-round.  The image on the left has a deeper field of view through the use of the dark backdrop, whereas the image of the right lacks this as the light and over exposed backdrop shirks the depth of view. The overall undertone of the image on the left is warm and yellow, and the image on the right is a lot cooler with blue based undertones. Both images have been captured in portrait, unusual yet different and effective for this type of imagery.

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MY FAVORITE IMAGES:

This is a collection of my favorite Albert RengerPatzsch work.

RESPONSE AND CONTACT SHEETS OF MY OWN WORK:

This is my response of Patzsch’s work in the form of contact sheets. like Patzsch, I focused on capturing very simple, everyday objects in a way that is beautiful and impressive. I experimented with light, changing the ISO settings on my camera and shutter speed, in order to capture images that are interesting and detailed. I found myself to often be using the macro setting on my camera when capturing up close photographs of plants, this allowed me to have clear and crisp photos that illustrated the detailed line work in the plants.

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Albert Renger-Patzsch

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Albert Renger-Patzsch was born June 22, 1897 in Würzburg, Germany, he began making photos from the age of 12, then began working as a press photographer and freelancer. He was associated with the ‘New Objectivity’ .  He photographed things that engaged with the world as clearly as possible, such as the natural world and the industrial which presented the world in a distinct modern way. Albert Renger-Patzsch was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. He died September 27, 1966.

 

The new objectivity is a movement in 1920’s by the Germans in reaction to go against expressionism. Artist removed themselves from the romantic idealism in photographs and even called on the public to back them up. The new objectivity changed photography as it allowed people to develop ideas and broaden the photography industry by photographing the world, instead of set up scenes.

In my first shoot I focused on the industrial photos he took. I chose to do this because I like the way how he focuses in on the different directions of lines and the repeat of shapes in the photo, his photos are almost an abstract as he homes in on shapes. In most his photos the whole setting is in focus also his photos are never from forward on angle, most of the time he takes them at an angle, either looking up or down, this adds an interesting factor to the images as it doesn’t look like a normal simple image. His photos introduced a sense of real life to the photography industry, he wanted his photos to have no meaning, but by making this apparent it shows people that his motive was to have meaningless photos, which then makes the viewer question why he has done that. He used natural lighting in his photos and a use of different tones, which were created by the objects in his photos.

First Shoot;

These four images are from my first shoot where I have presented the style of Albert Renger-Patzsch. I mainly focused on industrial images for this shoot as his industrial images were some of my favorites. I liked the way he photographed such simple things but they created such a photo, in a way of shapes being repeated or shapes contrasting each other, also the light and dark tones throughout his industrial images. His industrial images showed the world in a new way, instead of having photos with one specific meaning, he photographed photos that could have multiple meanings and moods.

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Albert Renger-Patzsch

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Albert Renger-Patzsch(1897-1966) was born in Würzburg, Germany. He lived and and worked in Essen and Wamel, Germany.

German photographer Albert Ranger-Patzsch was a ground breaking figure in the New Objective  movement, which was made to engage with the world and people in it as much as possible.

Moving away form the ideals and subjects that are highly prized of a previous generation, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) emerged as a trend in German art, architecture and literature in the 1920s. Applying this attitude to the field of photography, Renger-Patzsch adopted the camera’s ability to produce a direct visual recording of the world. ‘There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should be fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique’, he wrote.

This selection reflects the range of subjects that Renger-Patzsch would always come back to throughout his career. It includes his early wildlife and botanical studies, images of traditional craftsmen, formal studies of mechanical equipment, commercial still lifes, and landscape and architectural studies. His images of the Ruhrregion, where he moved in 1928, document the industrialisation of the area in an extreme amount of  detail. All of his work demonstrates his continued interest in the camera’s capability to capture to the beauty and complexity of the modern worl

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White Balance

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White balance is a setting on the camera that interprets the colour in the scene. There are different options when using white balance which include, auto, tungsten, fluorescent, daylight, cloudy and flash. They all produce different colour in the same photo.

Here in these photo gallery I have photographed the same scene but in different white balance settings. I photographed the same object inside and outside, this enabled me to change the settings on the camera to get the right aperture so the photo wasn’t too bright or dark.

Here in these 2 photo gallery’s I have photographed my object inside and outside, but changing the white balance settings too see how it affected the photo. I can see that certain settings bring out more colour than other, for example some of the photos are more orange than other and some are more blue.

Inside Photos

Outside photos

Inside Photos

Outside Photos

When photographing outside I had to change the shutter speed, so the photo would let less light into it, otherwise the photo would be too bright. Increasing the shutter speed results in the photo letting less light into the photo, the shutter speed is normally increased when outside because of the sun light and different tones around you.