Raoul Hausmann
Subtitle: photographs 1927-1936
By: texts by Cécile Bargues ; editors, Cécile Bargues with David Barriet, David Benassayag, Béatrice Didier
Contributors: Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971, artist, photographer; Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971; Koenig Books (Firm); Point du Jour (Gallery); Musée du jeu de paume (France)
Edition: English edition, first edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9783960982722
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Austrian Art; Criticism and interpretation; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Black-and-white photography; Artistic Photography; Themes, motives
Other titles: Raoul Hausmann (2017). English.
Description: "Raoul Hausmann's photographic work has long been underrated. This key artists of the twentieth century is remembered primarily for the central role he played in Berlin Dada with his assemblages, photomontages, and optophonetic poems, yet the vicissitudes of history caused his photography, an essential facet of his oeuvre, to be cast almost entirely into the shade. From 1927 on, Hausmann became an avid and restless photographer in Germany, in particular during his stays at the North Sea and Baltic coasts. While in exile in Ibiza after the Nazis came to power, he took an interest in the local populace and vernacular architecture, before emigrating again in 1936. During this intense decade, he reflected extensively on photography, developing a highly individual practice in the medium, simultaneously documentary and lyrical, inextricably linked to his way of thinking and living. His circle of friends included August Sander, Raoul Ubac, and Lázló Moholy-Nagy, who announced to Vera Broido, one of Hausmann's partners: 'I learnt everything that I know from Raoul.' This book by art historian Cécile Bargues reveals Hausmann's interwar photographic work in its entirety, and presents a detailed time line of his life. The publication concludes with a previously unpublished text in which author Nik Cohn, Vera Broido's son, recounts his mother's memories of Hausmann."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Point du Jour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, September 24, 2017 - January 14, 2018, and at Musée du jeu de paume, Paris,  February 6 - May 20, 2018.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A Portrait of the 'Distinguished Denizen', Raoul Hausmann --; title: An Exercise in Contemplation: Becoming a Photographer in Germany --; title: Germany, 1927-1933: Photographs --; title: A Castle in Spain: Ibiza's Architecture and Inhabitants --; title: Ibiza, 1933-1936: Photographs --; title: Raoul Hausmann: a Timeline --; title: 'Everything Begins with Dance': Extract from Interview with Vera Broido, 1974 --; title: Raoul Hausmann and My Mother Vera Broido -- Nik Cohn.