Paul Wolff - Frankfurt. Friedrich Seidenstücker - Berlin. Zwei Zeitgenossen fotografieren die 30er Jahre. (Two contemporaries photograph the thirties)

Biographies of Paul Wolff (1887-1951) and Friedrich
Seidenstücker (1882-1966), showing how both were influenced by
the picture press of the thirties, and the different ways they
reacted to the Nazification of the press. Seidenstücker retired
to his rural private home, Wolff worked on industrial
commissions. Both photographers were crucial witnesses of those
years. The publication of Wolff's pictures, especially in
picture-books (a genre popularised by Wolff), contributed to the
illiterization of culture, and were in concordance with National
Socialist aims - to make images more important than words.
(German)
Rosenmuseums, Bad Nauheim


Citaten:
Bruns, B.: Die Fesselung des Blicks (Kairos i.5/6, 1987, p.71-82)