Eugen Nosko (born 15 October 1938) is a German industrial photographer and journalist, known for producing thousands of photos of the industry of the German Democratic Republic,

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Biography

Eugen Nosko was born in the territory of the

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just in the storming days of the

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. In 1946 his family had to leave their country, due to the

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, and came in Germany, in the

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region. From the mid-1960s to 1984 he specialised in photographing and writing articles about East German industry, like the Kombinat and VEB enterprises. In 1985 he moved to

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, where he continued to work as journalist and photographer for another 15 years. Then he returned to

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. All the 9,900 photographs shot by Nosko are publicly available online on the Deutsche Fotothek website with a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license and have all been even uploaded to the

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website (see below).

Gallery

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nosko, Eugen 1938 births Living people People from Martin, Slovakia 20th-century German photographers Slovak emigrants to Germany Slovak people of German descent