the world is beautiful

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Albert Renger was a German photographer who started photography at the age of twelve. In 1928 he published a book called “The World Is Beautiful.” This book had the best collection of his photos (one hundred) of natural and man made objects.

Albert’s photography is very repetitive and unique as he had a fascination in the light and dark features of nature and man made objects. His black and white work is mostly photographed of close up (macro) plants, interesting structured buildings and natural sites. In his photographs, he recorded the exact, detailed appearance of objects from the human eye. He believed that the untouched object that he is photographing does not need changing when taking the photo , as for not editing or changing the image when taken or being photographed. His eye for angles in photography was what got his work to be famous and unique in his time (1928).

ANALYSIS

Encounters with the History of Photography (III)

These photos from Albert have the similarities of the same object repetitively seen in the image as the trees are placed roughly in the same pattern as each other and there are many of them. As well as the shoes lined up in columns and are identical to each other.

The black and white images connect in similar photography as they both have a high contrast with dark and light in the shadow and highlights in the images.

A difference in these images would be that the shoes have been created by a man to look like that in the image, they have been placed in a particular arranging to create this sequence of identical shoes in repeating lines . As for the trees which have not been touched and are all naturally placed in the snowy surrounding in the image.

Albert Renger-Patzsch | Widewalls

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