The Dusseldorf School of Photography

The Dusseldorf School of photography was a school for Fine Art Paintings and arts.  The school holds works of great artistic excellence and innovations.  This school of Husband and wife team Bernd and Hilla Becher was when they first gave art photography institutional support and a home. All of the new movements made in Art happened just before the World War II, so now there are lot and lots of Museums around the area of Dusseldorf.  There is a book filled of the works by the pupils of the school who have changed the face of art photography.

The Bechers were influenced by August Sander, August Sander had a new objective approach to Portraiture and Otto Steinert, subjectively was influenced by Man Ray.

The Dusseldorf Book is filled with superb reproductions of three generations of the Participating artists best known photographers.  The works produced from the pupils who studied at this school now dominates the sale rooms and museums and probably will do for generations to come.  They each changed the way we all look at art in photography, gave more meaning and gave the viewer reasons to think.

Here are a list of Artists and Photographers who attended the school and more possible photographers who have used similar work to what my ideas are of:

• Bernd & Hilla Becher (shown on a previous post)
• Laurenz Berges
• Elger Esser
• Andreas Gursky
• Candida Hofer
• Axel Hutte
• Simone Nieweg
• Thomas Ruff
• Jorg Sasse
• Thomas Struth 
• Petra Wunderlich

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Having Not even heard of some of these photographers, I was so pleased I was shown such a ray of different photographers.  I am actually surprised that I was never shown some of these images before this module.  I haven't even know they existed.  I feel as if many of the works from the photographers on the list above can fit into my subjects and topic idea.  I would like to try out something different for this module, I want to have a theme throughout.  I will go through and show what is relevant to my ideas from the works of these great photographers - there are more than one group and series of work that are very inspirational to me now.