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Fotohof
Fotohof is a Salzburg-based non-commercial gallery and publishing company specialising in contemporary fine art photography. Its sponsoring body is the Association for the Promotion of Auteur Photography, founded in 1981. FOTOHOF ''gallery'' Fotohof's gallery in Salzburg (Austria) organises around ten exhibitions a year. Since 1981 it has organised around 350 exhibitions, with Austria accounting for 50% of all artists shown, Western Europe for 27%, Eastern Europe for 13%, and the rest of the world for 10%. The programming for the gallery is adopted by resolution of the Association at its board meetings. The programme itself aims to achieve a mix of established and young up-and-coming or recently graduated artists as well as national and international artists, not to mention individual features on the history of photography. Fotohof co-operates on a regular basis with guest curators and other institutions, particularly for group exhibitions and exhibitions focusing on a particu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fotohof Archiv Archivraum
Fotohof is a Salzburg-based non-commercial Art museum, gallery and Publishing, publishing company specialising in contemporary fine art photography. Its sponsoring body is the Association for the Promotion of Auteur Photography, founded in 1981. FOTOHOF ''gallery'' Fotohof's gallery in Salzburg (Austria) organises around ten exhibitions a year. Since 1981 it has organised around 350 exhibitions, with Austria accounting for 50% of all artists shown, Western Europe for 27%, Eastern Europe for 13%, and the rest of the world for 10%. The programming for the gallery is adopted by resolution of the Association at its board meetings. The programme itself aims to achieve a mix of established and young up-and-coming or recently graduated artists as well as national and international artists, not to mention individual features on the history of photography. Fotohof co-operates on a regular basis with guest curators and other institutions, particularly for group exhibitions and exhibitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerti Deutsch
Gertrude Helene "Gerti" Deutsch (1908–1979), also known as Gertrude Hopkinson, was an Austrian-born British photographer. She is best known for her work for the magazine ''Picture Post'', from 1938 until 1950. Early life and education Deutsch was an only child, born to Jewish parents. Her mother was from Olomouc, Moravia and her father was from Bielsko-Biala, Eastern Silesia. She grew up in an apartment behind the Karlskirche in the centre of Vienna. Home-educated by a French governess as a young child and then at school in Vienna, she briefly attended an English boarding school at the age of sixteen, before entering the Wiener Musikakademie. On graduation, her goal was a career as a concert pianist but, owing to neuritis in her right arm, her recitals were not to go far beyond entertaining her parents' social gatherings. From 1933 to 1934, she retrained as a photographer at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. Photography career After periods spent in Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dressler
Peter Dressler (17 September 1942 – 15 September 2013) was an Austrian photographer and academic teacher. Life and work Peter Dressler was born in Brașov, Romania on 17 September 1942. He created his first photographic works in the 1960s. After studying painting from 1966 to 1971 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Gustav Hessing, he graduated with a diploma. Afterwards, he stayed at the academy as a teacher from 1972 to 2008, initially as a lecturer under Hessing, and from 2001 on as an assistant professor under Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Hubert Schmalix and Amelie von Wulffen. Both as a teacher and as "foremost protagonist of hepioneering generation of auteur photographers in Austria" he had a significant influence on Austrian Photography from the 1970s onwards. Dressler used photography to create staged “photo stories”, his aim was "to bring to life the static picture". Often he used spaces of human interaction for locations: public spaces (like "Kunsthistoris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inge Morath
Ingeborg Hermine "Inge" Morath (; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955. Morath was the third wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller; their daughter is screenwriter/director Rebecca Miller. Early years (1923–1945) Morath was born in Graz, Austria, to Mathilde (Wiesler) and Edgar Morath, scientists whose work took them to different laboratories and universities in Europe during her childhood. Her parents had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. First educated in French-speaking schools, Morath relocated in the 1930s with her family to Darmstadt, a German intellectual center, and then to Berlin, where Morath's father directed a laboratory specializing in wood chemistry. Morath was registered at the ''Luisenschule'' near Bahnhof Friedrichstraße. Morath's first encounter with ''avant-gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Harsieber
Heidi Harsieber (born 1948 in Gloggnitz) is an Austrian photographer who is known for her independent artistic work, and her portrait and documentary works of the Austrian art scene. She has exhibited across the country, and won the Cultural Award of Lower Austria for Media Art / Artistic Photography in 2023. Life and work Heidi Harsieber completed an apprenticeship as a photographer in 1963–66 at the photography master class of Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. In 1970, she was the youngest self-employed commercial photographer in Austria, and she has been working as an artist since the 1960s. At the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, she was head of the »Fotozentralwerkstätte« entral photography labfrom 1977 to 1985, and from 1991 to 2001 she taught documentary photography for conservators. Harsieber was influenced by Ernst Hartmann, who was a teacher at 'Graphische'. As a tribute to his personality and body of work, she published a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Moscouw
Michaela Moscouw (born 1961 in Vienna) is an artist and photographer from Austria. Life and work Michaela Moscouw attended an arts and crafts school and trained at Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt from 1976 to 1981. She first worked as a freelance graphic designer, co-founded Fotogalerie Wien in 1983 and developed her own artistic work in an autodidactic manner while being involved in the gallery's activities. She lives distanced from the art scene on the outskirts of Vienna. Maria Venzl, curator of the comprehensive exhibition “Present Absent” 2023 in Linz, divides Moscouw's artistic development into four distinct phases. An abstract, graphic early work, which was completely destroyed by the artist in the early 1980s. Moscouw then turned to the camera and her early photographic work, in which she staged her own body in interior shots inspired by Viennese Actionism. In the mid-1990s, her work left the interior settings and her photographic stagings now took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Schnelle
Werner Schnelle (born 1942 in Vienna) is an Austrian photographer. Biography Werner Schnelle was born in Vienna in 1942, and has lived and worked in Salzburg since 1965. A freelance photographer since 1987, his artistic work is primarily concerned with various special photographic techniques such as the instant camera, the photo-, chemi- and lumigram, camera- and negative-less photography and in-camera negatives. He has also worked with large Polaroid images. Schnelle's works are mainly created in the studio and deal with the process of photography itself in a media-reflexive manner and often "unique photographic pieces" are the result of his artistic work. The central elements in the work of Schnelle, whose "abstract works occupy a singular hotographicposition within Austria", are always the medium of photography itself, the properties of light and space and of movement and time, and the traces that objects leave in the image under the influence of the processes inherent in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Suschitzky
Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC (29 August 1912 – 7 October 2016), was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film ''Get Carter''. Andrew Pulver described Suschitzky in 2007 as "a living link to the prewar glory days of the British documentary movement." Steve Chibnall writes that Suschitzky " evelopeda reputation as an expert location photographer with a documentarist's ability to extract atmosphere from naturalistic settings." His photographs have been exhibited at the National Gallery, the Austrian Cultural Forum in London and the Photographers' Gallery, and appear in many international photography collections. He was the father of cinematographer Peter Suschitzky (born 1941), classical musician and writer Misha Donat, and Julia Donat. Early life Suschitzky was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. His father was a Viennese social democr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curators
A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission. The term "curator" may designate the head of any given division, not limited to museums. Curator roles include "community curators", "literary curators", "digital curation, digital curators", and "Biocuration, biocurators". Collections curator A "collections curator", a "museum curator", or a "keeper" of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., Art museum, gallery, museum, library, or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's Collection (artwork), collections and involved with the Heritage interpretation, interpretation of heritage material including historical artifacts. A collections curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort—artwork, collectibles, historic items ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salzburg
Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps mountains. The town occupies the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Founded as an episcopal see in 696, it became a Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, seat of the archbishop in 798. Its main sources of income were salt extraction, trade, as well as gold mining. The Hohensalzburg Fortress, fortress of Hohensalzburg, one of the largest medieval fortresses in Europe, dates from the 11th century. In the 17th century, Salzburg became a centre of the Counter-Reformation, with monasteries and numerous Baroque churches built. Salzburg has an extensive cultural and educational history, being the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and being home to three universities and a large student population. Today, along with Vienna and the Tyrol (st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo Journalism
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, social documentary photography, war photography, street photography and celebrity photography) by having a rigid ethical framework which demands an honest and impartial approach that tells a story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists contribute to the news media, and help communities connect with one other. They must be well-informed and knowledgeable, and are able to deliver news in a creative manner that is both informative and entertaining. Similar to a writer, a photojournalist is a journalist, reporter, but they must often make decisions instantly and carry camera, photographic equipment, often while exposed to significant obstacles, among them immediate physical danger, bad weather, large crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors. There are also thematic and genre-based anthologies.Chris Baldrick''The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'' 3rd. ed (2008) Complete collections of works are often called " complete works" or "" (Latin equivalent). Etymology The word entered the English language in the 17th century, from the Greek word, ἀνθολογία (''anthologic'', literally "a collection of blossoms", from , ''ánthos'', flower), a reference to one of the earliest known anthologies, the ''Garland'' (, ''stéphanos''), the introduction to which compares each of its anthologized poets to a flower. That ''Garland'' by Meléagros of Gadara formed the kernel for what has become known as the Greek Anthology. '' Florilegium'', a Latin derivative for a collection of flowers, was used in mediev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
