Fotografia 4

Exhibition at the Gallery of Villa Massimo – German Academy Rome | October 05 - November 24, 2017

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The fourth edition of this exhibition series Fotografia 4 – Lotte Jacobi and Alfred Eisenstaedt, curated by Ute Eskildsen based on an idea by Joachim Blüher, is dedicated to two photographers who were already successful during the Weimar Republic. As Jewish citizens, they were unable to develop their careers in Germany after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 and were forced to emigrate to the United States in 1935. Among the guests were many young photographers, artists and curators. There was great interest and admiration for the rare vintage photographs. Many emphasized the museum quality of this exhibition. (Text: Villa Massimo – German Academy Rome)

“Great interest, great admiration” for this exhibition, and rightly so. After all, the loans from the Ullstein photographic collection rarely fail to make an impact. And the public's interest grows with every presentation. On display in Rome are Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographs from the picture gallery: his talking reportages of Waiters on ice skates in St. Moritz (1932), the Traffic policeman in front of the Palazzo Chiggi in Rome (1933) and the Cotton picker Lonnie Fair in the U.S.A. (1937). Other individual shots show scenes from the Baden-Baden casino, Admirers of a model railroad, the Wax dolls from Broadway and Student nurses in New York.

During the Weimar Republic, his pictures enriched the progressive editions of the illustrated magazines published by Ullstein in Berlin: Die Dame, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Uhu, Tempo, Der Querschnitt. In later years, after his forced emigration in 1935, Eisenstaedt built on his earlier successes, not least as a photojournalist and photo editor at Life in New York. This place was also of central importance for his contacts with former Ullstein creatives and decision-makers such as Kurt Safranski and Kurt Korff, without whom the further development of photojournalism would have been inconceivable.

In the gallery you can see a selection of original photographs from the ullstein bild collection.

You can find the complete picture gallery at ullstein bild.