SIGNED; Barbara Klemm, Ellen Auerbach - Bilder - 1986

FIRST EXCELLENT BOOK by the WELL-KNOWN, IMPORTANT German photographer Barbara Klemm.

After all the decades of photographing and publishing STILL HER MOST FAVOURITE PUBLICATION.

Signed by the artist.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

Beside a lot of other famous ones also photos of Joseph Beuys, Wolf Biermann and Andy Warhol.

'Barbara Klemm, born 27 December 1939 in Münster, is a German press photographer. She worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for 45 years. She photographed many of the most important events in recent German history and has received honors, including Fellowship of the Academy of Arts, Berlin and the Pour le Mérite. She was inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame in recognition of her status as "a driving force in reportage photography" and as 'an exemplary photographer'.
She was born in Münster and grew up in Karlsruhe.
Her father Fritz Klemm was a painter and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.
In 1959, she moved to Frankfurt to work for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), for which she worked until 2004. As a press photographer she photographed events including the 1969 student riots in Frankfurt, Heinrich Böll protesting against nuclear weapons in 1983, the 1969 celebrations in Cuba for the tenth anniversary of the revolution, the first democratic elections held in Portugal on 25 April 1975, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
She has photographed many celebrities, including Mick Jagger, Tom Waits, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, György Ligeti, Andy Warhol, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Her famous photographs include Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German leader Erich Honecker in 1979. Throughout her life she has consistently used black-and-white analog (film) photography, typically single photographs rather than series.'
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S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin. 1986. First edition, first printing.

Paperback (as issued). 250 x 280 mm. 153 pages. Photos: Barbara Klemm. Foreword: Ellen Auerbach. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing; last pages with neat crease at the top right corner, no other remarkable flaws or defects. Outside a bit used and yellowed (like so often). Overall fine condition.

Great photobook, after so many published books still one of the best one's by well-known German photographer Barbara Klemm - signed by the artist.

How does the past become lodged in our memories? In the form of stories and pictures. Since time memorial, writers have tried to stop us forgetting. Be it Homer praising the bravery of the Greeks besieging Troy or Shakespeare admiring the beauty of his lover: The written word expresses permanence. The visual memory of the applied arts, namely sculpture and painting, renders the past visible. Auguste Rodin turns the stooped gait of the “Citizens of Calais” into oppressive reality, Max Slevogt intimates to us the triumphant gesture of Francisco d’Andrade in his famed role as Don Giovanni. Yet without doubt no visual medium is more suited to preserve an occurrence captured for a moment than is photography.
Barbara Klemm is one the most prominent chroniclers of recent German history. Since the 1960s she has been covering politics and society in both Germanies as a staff photographer attached to the main editorial desk of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. Entitled “Our Years – Pictures from Germany 1968-1998” these works went on show first in the Berlin Museum of History in 1999 and then, a year later, among others in the Schirn gallery in Frankfurt.
Were Barbara Klemm only to preserve the moment from transience, she could be regarded as one of many good photographers. The status and unmistakable character of her pictures (and they are often shot in a matter of moments) stems from the fact that they obey the specific dramatics of that one moment, never to be repeated. Be they portraits of politicians in the various constellations of power or somewhat more unspectacular snapshots of everyday life on both sides of what used to be the border separating the two Germanies: Barbara Klemm’s photographs show us intensive life, the meaning of which flares up for a moment and then by dint of the photographs continues to be visible.