Jakob Tuggener : Photographs

by Tuggener, Jakob; Gasser, Martin

• ISBN13: 9783908247241
• ISBN10: 3908247241
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac

Summary

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss photographer, filmmaker, and painter Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988). The main themes of Tuggener's oeuvre were work in the factory, life in the countryside, and society events such as the magnificent New Year's Eve balls at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz. At the time of his death, Tuggener left behind an overwhelming and practically untouched trove of work, consisting of thousands of prints, over twenty silent films, and hundreds of drawings, watercolors and oil paintings. Based on this extremely rich and varied material, this book examines the visual and, through Tuggener's own texts, mental world of one of Europe's most creative but hitherto undiscovered artists. This book fills a long overdue gap in the history of photography, and is a significant addition to 20th century photography studies.

Author Biography

Martin Gasser is the curator of the Swiss Foundation of Photography, Zurich.

Table of Contents

Preface: Tuggener - The Illustrious	p. 6
Introduction	p. 11
Plates	p. 15
Zurich to Berlin	p. 35
Early Albums	p. 40
Berlin and the Reimann Schule	p. 54
Making a Living and Art	p. 73
Work for Magazines	p. 78
Photographs Taken in the City	p. 86
Landscape and Countryside	p. 90
Speed and Danger	p. 94
Summer 1936 in Brittany	p. 102
A Film Project	p. 105
Vienna 1938	p. 106
Technology	p. 113
Fabrik	p. 125
Plates	p. 137
The End of the Era of the Machine	p. 169
Plates	p. 173
Countryside	p. 187
In the Army	p. 190
Fruhling, Sommer, Herbst, and Winter	p. 192
Uf em Land	p. 200
Zurcher Oberland	p. 202
Plates	p. 205
Nights at the Balls	p. 245
Palace Hotel	p. 251
Ballnachte	p. 255
Exhibiting Ballnachte	p. 258
Plates	p. 264
The Late Years	p. 313
The Photographer as an Expressionist	p. 316
Plates	p. 321
Appendix	p. 328
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