Albert Renger-Patzsch

Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity. The ‘New Objectivity’ emerged as a style in Germany in the 1920’s as a challenge to Expressionism. As it’s name suggests, it offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, as opposed to the more abstract, romantic, or idealistic tendencies of Expressionism.

Image Analysis

This image taken by Albert Renger-Patzsch shows a plant of some sort. This shows off his macro photography. Macro photography is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size.  This image shows that he uses various styles of photography in his work. He also takes images of industrial type buildings and settings.

My Response

For this photoshoot inspired by Albert Renger-Patzch I went out and took images of industrial style buildings to try and mimic his work as best as I could. I then chose my favourite images from the shoot and converted them to black and white the same way Renger-Patzch has done.