White Shadows : Anneliese Hager and the camera-less photograph / edited and written by Lynette Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hager, Anneliese, 1904-1997, artist.

Roth, Lynette, author, editor.

Contributor:

Harvard Art Museums, host institution.

Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, host institution.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hager, Anneliese, 1904-1997--Exhibitions.

Hager, Anneliese.

Photograms--Exhibitions.

Photograms.

Photography, Artistic--20th century--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Black-and-white photography--Exhibitions.

Black-and-white photography.

Photobooks.

photobooks.

art photography.

black-and-white photography.

photograms.

Genre:

photobooks.

exhibition catalogs.

Photobooks.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Anneliese Hager and the camera-less photograph

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles] : Atelier Éditions, [2024]

Language Note:

Text in English; includes some text in German

Summary:

"This publication introduces the untold story of German artist and poet Anneliese Hager. Active from the 1930s to the 1960s, Hager began her photographic experimentation in Germany during the Nazi censure of modern art. Her preferred medium was the cameraless photograph, or photogram--an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close proximity to) a light-sensitive surface and exposing the assembled material to light. In its final form, a photogram is a one-of-a-kind work that reverses light and dark: the longer the paper is covered, and hence unexposed, the brighter the covered parts will be, and vice versa. Hager called these bright areas "white shadows." Hager's photograms offer a more inclusive history of the medium, synthesizing the technique's 20th-century avant-garde trajectory (best known in the work of László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray) and its 19th-century prehistories in the realm of science and in practices such as the making of silhouettes, collage and textile arts--pursuits often coded feminine. In 1945, all Hager's existing artwork was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden during World War II. This book offers an unprecedented reconstruction of her development and postwar creation of otherworldly, Surrealist visions in photograms and poems, a selection of which appear here in English for the first time. For Hager, the photogram was significant for its provocative tonal inversions and surprising chance effects, but also for what emerges from the dark."-- ArtBook, website.

Contents:

Foreword / Renate Heyne

Introduction

I. Natural science

II. The Avant-Garde

III. Experimental art and poetry.

Notes:

Edition of 2000.

Published on the occassion of the exhibition "White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph" on view March 4, 2022-July 31, 2022 at the Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums; November 10, 2023-February 11, 2024 at Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781954957053

195495705X

OCLC:

1572680035