Main entry:

Mantz, Werner, 1901-1983, photographer.

Title & Author:

Werner Mantz : the perfect eye / texts, Frits Gierstberg [and four others].

Publication:

[Antwerp] : Hannibal, [2022]
©2022

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, plan, portraits ; 33 cm + 1 booklet (31 pages ; 32 cm)

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Bonnefanten Maastrict, 25 September 2022 - 26 February 2023.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-319).
Early landscapes -- Portraits -- Reproductions of art works -- The Pickenhahn Hairdressing Salon -- Cologne Housing Estates -- The Pressa -- Modern life -- Villas -- Interiors -- University Hospital Cologne -- Schools -- Staircases -- Industry -- Mining -- Advertising photography -- Maastricht -- Limburg's iconic architecture -- Rural Limburg -- Limburg's provincial roads -- Religion -- Maastricht Municipal Savings Bank -- Photographic travels -- The Schürmann & Kicken portfolio.
Texts in English and booklet in Dutch.

Summary:

Werner Mantz (1901-1983) was a prominent architectural and industrial photographer in the 1920s and 1930s. His work occupies a unique historical position thanks to his visual language, technical prowess and use of natural light. As one of the most important photographers of the New Building movement, Mantz's oeuvre bridges the gap between the often-anonymous nature of commissioned photography and the modernist, artistic avant-garde movements of the interwar years, such as the Bauhaus. In the 1970s, Mantz was even hailed as the "missing link" in the history of international photography. To date, only thematic selections from Mantz's wide-ranging oeuvre have been exhibited. This monograph sets the record straight by showcasing, for the very first time, his immense versatility. Werner Mantz : The Perfect Eye contains over 300 predominantly vintage images, ranging from architectural photography, advertising shots and portraits of adults and children, to views of industry and mines, religious subjects, shops, restaurants and interiors, as well as roads, public spaces, landscapes and travel photographs. That Mantz's oeuvre belongs to the canon of international photography is indisputable.Exhibition: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (25.09.2022 - 26.02.2023).

ISBN:

9789464366730 (English-Dutch edition)
9464366737 (English-Dutch edition)
(English-German edition)
9789464366792

Subject:

Mantz, Werner, 1901-1983 Exhibitions.
Mantz, Werner, 1901-1983
Architectural photography Exhibitions.
Black-and-white photography Exhibitions.
Photographie d'architecture Expositions.
Photographie en noir et blanc Expositions.
Architectural photography
Black-and-white photography

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gierstberg, Frits, writer of added commentary.
Bonnefantenmuseum, host institution.

Perfect eye

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316806
Call No.: 316806
Copy: 1
Status: Available