Clemens Kalischer.

Kalischer.- Brudna, Denis und Norbert Bunge (Hrsg.).

ISBN 10: 3775711295 / ISBN 13: 9783775711296

Published by Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz (2002)., 2002

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29,5 x 24 cm. 175 S., mit überw. Fotoabb. Fotoillustrierter OPpbd. Der deutsch-amerikanische Fotograf Clemens Kalischer (1921-2018) ist ein wichtiger Vertreter der humanistischen Fotografie, die das Alltagsleben und die Erfahrungen von Menschen in den Mittelpunkt stellt. So dokumentiert er die Ankunft europäischer Flüchtlinge (Displaced Persons) in den USA nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, später seine Umgebung in Stockbridge/Mass. und schuf intime Porträts von Künstlern und Intellektuellen (u. a. Marc Chagall, Saul Bellow, Frank Lloyd Wright). Sein Leben und Werk, geprägt von seiner persönlichen Geschichte und den Erfahrungen des Exils, sind ein wichtiges Dokument der Migration, des Überlebens und der Menschlichkeit.- Titelblatt mit Signatur des Fotografen aus dem Jahr 2006.- Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: deu eng.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clemens Kalischer.
• Publisher: Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz (2002).
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775711295
• ISBN 13: 9783775711296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fotobücher / Photo Books

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Synopsis

People have been the focus of Clemens Kalischer's photographs for more than 50 years, ever since he arrived in New York City at age 21, in 1942, having fled Germany with his family via Switzerland and Paris. "Displaced Persons," one of his first series, and one of his most personal and intimate, quietly chronicles the arrival of Holocaust refugees in the United States in the late 1940s, a scene of which he was both observer and participant. Later work includes photographs of everyday scenes in New York and impressions from his travels in Europe, images which sensitively hone in on the people they capture and the circumstances in which they live. This volume collects 120 selections from throughout Kalischer's extensive body of work, an oeuvre which spans the images he contributed to Edward Steichen's "The Family of Man" in 1955, the freelance jobs he undertook for prominent magazines like Time, Life, and Fortune, and the 35 years he worked on assignment for the New York Times.

About the Authors

"Clemens Kalischer was born in Linday, Germany, in 1921, and raised in Berlin. His family fled to France in 1933, and after several years of studying there, he was deported to an internment camp in 1939. Released on an emergency visa, he emigrated to the United States in 1942. Initial studies in photography at the Photo League were followed by enrollment at the New School for Social Research. Kalischer, who has lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, since 1951, continues to make photographs."

Kelly Wise is the former photography critic at the Boston Globe.