Gesichter/Faces

Hillert Ibbeken (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2019
Edition Axel Menges (Verlag)
978-3-86905-019-5 (ISBN)

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»I grew up in an art-conscious parental home.My grandfather was a sought-after landscapeartist of the Düsseldorf School. As a result, therewere beautiful paintings everywhere in the house,including two large portraits of my great-grandparentsfrom the beginning of the nineteenth century,which made a lasting impression on me as aboy. So it's not surprising that, as a high-schoolgraduate, I photographed with my first 35 mmcamera on the first film a face, my own, a selfportrait.That was in 1954.After that, photography didn't let me go. So,in the sixty-four years until this day, I have recorded,among my other topics, over four hundredhuman faces, above all those of family membersand friends. I had studied geology and had becomea geologist, which meant making endlessjourneys all over the world and also inevitablymaking countless human contacts. So I couldalso photograph human faces over and overagain in all the visited countries. As a geologist,I usually only met people living in the countrysidesuch as farmers, shepherds, fishermen orinnkeepers, but hardly a city dweller.With the help of the camera, I have tried tocapture the many expressive possibilities of thehuman face, understanding that every face isunmistakable.I have experimented with various camera modelsand film types of analogue photography, butI said goodbye to them in 2014 in order to get toknow and to use the almost inexhaustible possibilitiesof digital photography, most recently usinga monochrome Leica. I have, however, remainedas faithful as possible to one classical tool of photography:the tripod.«

Until his retirement, Hillert Ibbeken was professor of geology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has been involved in architecture and landscape photography throughout his life. His book Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Das architektonische Werk heute / The architectural work today, edited in cooperation with Elke Blauert, was published by Edition Axel Menges in 2001. Later there followed, in the same format, this time with him as sole editor, his monographs on Ludwig Persius (2005) and Friedrich August Stüler (2006), and, among others, Schlösser der Weserrenaissance / Castles of the Weser Renaissance (2008), edited in cooperation with Michael Bischoff, as well as Das andere Italien / The other Italy. Geschichten und Bilder aus Ligurien und Kalabrien / Stories and pictures from Liguria and Calabria (2011). His last work published by Edition Axel Menges was Preußische Gärten / Prussian Gardens with his photographs and a historical overview by Katja Schoene (2013).

Erscheinungsdatum	20.06.2019
Zusatzinfo	schwarz-weiß in Duplex
Verlagsort	Stuttgart
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	1850 x 1850 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Schlagworte	Fotografie/Gesichter • Gesichter • Porträts
ISBN-10	3-86905-019-5 / 3869050195
ISBN-13	978-3-86905-019-5 / 9783869050195
Zustand	Neuware