ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH
Albert Renger-Patzsch was part of a movement called "new objectivity" and the aim of his photography was too allow people too see the world as if it were completely new. He focused on bringing out importance and beauty in ordinary everyday objects and surfaces, making them new and interesting through a lens.
The "new objectivity" can also be translated to "new realism", which correlates a lot more directly to what Renger-Patzsch's objective in photography really was (too see ordinary objects, surfaces and sights in a different, more interesting light whilst still being simple, direct and realistic about it with his photos). He did this by taking extreme close ups, using different, abstract angles all trying to exclude anything else other than what he wanted to capture in the frame, making the object the main focus, letting people appreciate it, whilst keeping the photo completely realistic. All his photos are also taken in black and white meaning that he could achieve high contrast and detail in his photos which I think helps too complete what his objective was. Renger-Patzsch wasn't the only photographer that liked bringing out beauty in nature and man made objects involved with the "new objectivity", many other photographers like Otto Dix, George Grosz and many more followed in Renger-Patzsch's foot steps in photography. Renger-Patzsch even wrote a book on his photography called "Die Welt Ist Schon" (The World Is Beautiful). |
My attempts in recreating elements of his photographs in my work.
For my response I used one of the school cameras and had to walk around the grounds and take pictured trying to replicate as accurately as I could Albert-Renger Patzch's work style and way of photographing. I looked out for geometric patterns and structures which seemed interesting and similar too something I Paztch might've thought about photographing. The day we had to take these photographs the sky was actually really grey and therefore some of my photos did come out looking almost quite 2D and flat as there were no strong shadows or crisp lighting for some high quality photographs.