Author eva-gravayat

History is filled with stories of long-lost suitcases of photographs turning up and becoming exhibitions, from Robert Capa to Vivian Maier. These highly intimate archives serve as powerful documents of…

The German photography historian, critic and curator Hans-Michael Koetzle was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Leica World from 1996 to 2007. This year, to celebrate the centenary of Leica, he organized…

Kleinschmidt Fine Photographs is presenting a collective exhibition with the title "On the Sublime" bringing together the exceptional works of three artists from the gallery : Hugo Schmölz &…

Since she was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence in 1987, German photographer Herlinde Koelbl has never stopped receiving prizes. For nearly forty years, she has studied the social and professional…

The same name (by marriage), same profession (photographer), same training (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig), same nationality (German) and born only a few months apart, in 1949 and 1950,…

Two anniversaries are being celebrated this year in Germany: the 50th anniversary of the death of August Sander in 1964 and the 40th anniversary of the creation of the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel…

GDR, DDR, RDA: three abbreviations—English, German and French, respectively—that refer to the German Democratic Republic, commonly known as “East Germany,” where, from 1949 to 1990, a part of Germany was…

Hermann Landshoff was born in 1905 in Munich, where he grew up in a family of Jewish artists before fleeing his homeland to Paris and, eventually, New York. Like other great…