E. O. Hoppé's Amerika

副标题: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s

ISBN: 9780393065442

出版社: W. W. Norton & Company

出版年: 2007-08-17

页数: 160

定价: USD 49.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Emil Otto Hoppe was born in Munich in 1878 but lived in London from 1900 until his death in 1972. A renowned portrait and landscape photographer between the two world wars, he was an early and important modernist whose seminal views of the United States in the 1920s rival those of his peers: Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz and Walker Evans. His work shows us an America as only an outsider could: brave, new and grand in scale but with a hint of trouble brewing in the gaps between its multicultural and economic diversities. Much of Hoppe's work was locked away in British and German archives for the second half of the twentieth century, resulting in an eclipse of his reputation. Only recently has his work been reassembled and now we can see his intimate and intelligent view of the world at defining moments in its history.