Author Description

The forty photographs, taken between the 1920s and the 1960s and belonging to the Rolla collection, compare two previously presented authors with a new reading.Both were Germans, contemporaries, and worked predominantly in the same field, industrial photography. Albert Renger-Patzsch enjoys international fame, Ruth Hallensleben is yet to be discovered. The reasons are different, starting with the fact that the former also developed personal research, the latter almost always worked on commission. In the introductory text of the catalog, Urs Stahel also examines other factors, social conditioning, and emphasizes that: In this selection, there are hardly any differences in attitude or quality. Although here, too, it is often a question of commissioned versus free photography.