Clemens Kalischer - Clemens Kalischer (FIRST MONOGRAPH) - 2002

WONDERFUL FIRST AND ONLY MONOGRAPH by highly underrated Clemens Kalischer (1921-2018), American photojournalist and art photographer who was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States.

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"The work of photographer Clemens Kalischer was familiar only to insiders for many years. Born in Germany in 1921, he fled with his family to France in 1933 and later emigrated to the U.S. In America, photography became both his vocation and his personal means of expression. His clients included such prominent magazines as Time, Life, and Fortune, and he worked on assignment for the New York Times for 35 years. In 1955, Clemens Kalischer took part in Edward Steichen's legendary exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. People have been the focus of his interest for more than 50 years. One of his first series was the cycle entitled Displaced Persons. In these quiet images, Clemens Kalischer chronicles the arrival of Holocaust refugees in the U.S. during the forties. Later works include photographs of everyday scenes in New York and impressions from his travels in Europe. His images of people and the circumstances in which they live are characterized by a striking sensitivity and formal command. This volume of photographs presenting some 120 reproductions in duplex quality provides revealing insights into the extensive oeuvre of Clemens Kalischer, who is still an active photographer today. The photographer: Clemens Kalischer, born 1921 in Lindau, Germany, raised in Berlin. Forced to flee Germany to France with his family in 1933. After several years of study in Paris, he was deported to an internment camp in 1939. Released on an emergency visa, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1942. Initial studies in photography at the Photo League, followed by enrollment at the New York School for Social Research. Kalischer now lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts." (from the publisher)

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Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern. 2002. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 244 x 295 mm. 176 pages. 122 photos in black and white. Photos: Clemens Kalischer. Edited by Norbert Bunge and Denis Brudna. Introduction: Miles Unger. Contributions: Norbert Bunge. Text in English and German.

Condition:
Book inside with small handwritten date and stamp at the top of first blank page, no other marks, no foxing; pages smell a bit like smoke. Outside very fresh; very light trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall fine condition.

Fantastic photobook by Clemens Kalischer.
Published on the occasion of his exhibitions at "Altonaer Museum, Hamburg" (February 27 - June 30, 2002) and at "Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin" (September - Winter 2002).

"Clemens Kalischer's series of photographs of displaced persons arriving in New York City from displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe, taken in 1947 and 1948, was his most recognized work. Kalischer was born in Lindau, Germany. He immigrated to France via Switzerland (1933) and then to the United States via Morocco (1942). His family fled from Berlin in 1933 and settled in Paris. He was taken prisoner in France in 1939 and survived three years of forced labor in eight different work camps (1939–1942). He was reunited with his father in the last camp and his family escaped to the U.S. with the aid of Varian Fry. From 1944 through 1946 he studied art at the Cooper Union. Since 1951, Kalischer lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He married Angela Wottitz in 1956. They had two children.
Kalischer was a member of ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals); a member of One by One (an international dialogue group between survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust) and worked as a freelance photographer of The New York Times, Newsweek, Life, Fortune, Du, The Sun, Yankee, Coronet, Country Journal, Moment, Vermont Life, In Context, Jubilee, Yes, Orion, Ploughshares, Common Ground, Architectural Forum, Places, Urban Design International, Progressive Architectural, and Time magazine. His photograph of a little boy with his puppy at the base of apartment steps on the West Side, New York, was selected by Edward Steichen for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man exhibition, seen by 9 million visitors.
His series of photographs of people arriving in New York City from displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe, taken in 1947 and 1948, was his most recognized work. Many are included in Clemens Kalischer, edited by Denis Brudna and Norbert Bunge (Hatje Cantz).
In 2009 he revealed that when in the 1950s he'd settled in Stockbridge that as a young photographer he had met Norman Rockwell who had a studio next door and had taken reference photographs for the artist.
In Stockbridge, Massachusetts, he opened a gallery in 1965, The Image Gallery, to represent new artists. The gallery is still open, showing works by Kalischer. His work spanned over 70 years of images. His freelance work focused on music (The Marlboro Music Festival, The Lenox School of Jazz, South Mountain Music Festival, Tanglewood, and many more), the arts (Black Mountain College, Pilobolus, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and many more), architecture, farming (CSA's, Italian Piedmont, the Slow Food Movement, Vermont, and more), nature, portraiture, images from the U.S. south, urban and rural areas of the U.S., images from Europe, India, Cuba, and Israel.
Kalischer died on June 9, 2018, in Lenox, Massachusetts, aged 97." (Wikipedia)