Gundula Schulze (El Dowy, Eldowy) - Waldo's Schatten - 1991

SCARCE AND SOUGHT-AFTER CATALOGUE BOOK by Gundula Schulze (El Dowy, Eldowy),
one the most important photographers from East Germany.

Subtitle: "Photographs from 1990"

Gundula Schulze Eldowy, born 1954 in Erfurt, is a German photographer. In addition to her photographic and film work, she has created stories, poems, essays, sound collages and songs.
The artistic importance of her photography has been compared to that of Diane Arbus.

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"At the age of fifteen, Schulze Eldowy travelled to Prague and Pilsen and was influenced by the Prague Spring. Between 1972 and 1982 she undertook extensive journeys across Eastern Europe. In 1972 she moved to East Berlin. From 1979 to 1984 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts (School of Visual Arts) in Leipzig for photography, studying with Horst Thorau. Her photographs from the 1970s and 1980s are considered some of the most important visual testimonies to East German daily life. Many of her photographs capture the private lives of others with a direct and unsparing gaze, including the living conditions of those living on the margins of society. She is known to capture everyday life through intimate exchange with her subjects. By documenting counterculture as well as elderly and disabled members of the community, she called to attention those that had been disregarded by official media, which for the most part was with idealized images of those benefiting from socialist society.
From 1977 to 1990, Schulze Eldowy worked on various photo series, which occasionally earned disapproval from the authorities. Among those received negatively were her nude portraits, which she chose to photograph in their homes in order to highlight their status in society and also retain their individuality. During this period, she created the black and white cycles Berlin on a Dog's Night, Work, Nude Portraits, Tamerlan, Street Scene, The Wind Fills Itself with Water, and two color cycles The Big and the Little Step, and The Devil Take the Hindmost. Despite both solo and group exhibition opportunities and inclusion in photography journals, the Stasi still attempted to impede her practice due to the opinion that her work negatively portrayed socialist society.
In 1985 she met American photographer Robert Frank, who encouraged her and invited her to go to New York in 1990, where she lived from 1990 to 1993. During this time she was included in the New Photography 8 exhibition at MoMA. Starting with her time in New York, Schulze Eldowy increasingly turned to poetry, which, for her, represents "the language of the spirit.
She continued to travel and live in different countries across the world: Italy (1991), Egypt (1993–2000), Japan (1996/97), Moscow (1997), Turkey (1997) and finally in Peru and Bolivia in the 2000s. During her time in Egypt, she discovered a previously unknown shaft in the west wall of the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. She used aerial photography to find what she claims is the location of the legendary Hall of Records. In a series of sound works entitled "Songs/Cheops-Pyramide" she recited poems, chants, and songs in the pyramid chambers.
In 2010 she became a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts
and in 2019 she became a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
In 1996 she was awarded the Higashikawa Prize.
Schulze Eldowy lives in Berlin and Peru.
(Wikipedia)

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Staatliche Museen, Berlin. 1991. First edition, first printing.

Great catalogue book -
published on the occasion of the exhibition at "Staatliche Museen Berlin Nationalgalerie" in 1991.

Paperback with dustjacket (as issued). 215 x 298 mm. 24 pages. Photos: Gundula Schulze (El Dowy, Eldowy). Layout: Volker Noth Grafik-Design. Introduction: Gundula Schulze. Text: Friedegund Weidemann. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside clean with no marks and with no foxing; pages smell a bit like smoke. Dustjacket a bit yellowed at the top of the front, no other remarkable flaws or defects; otherwise quite fresh and better than usual. Overall fine condition.

Great German photobook - very scarce.
Most of the publications by Gudula Schulze-Eldowy are very sought-after.