Barbara Klemm

Barbara Klemm ( * December 27, 1939 in Münster ( Westphalia ) ) is a German photographer and a press photographer.

Life

Barbara Klemm grew up in Karlsruhe, where her father Fritz Klemm was a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. Terminal, which had a darkroom, his daughter made familiar with the photographic techniques. After attending the grammar school she attended from 1955 to 1958 a photography apprenticeship in a portrait studio in Karlsruhe, where she graduated with the trade test.

In 1959 she moved to Frankfurt and worked in the plate making and photo lab in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Through the photographer Wolfgang skin (1927-2001) it was suggested to free work and journalistic photography. It was initially a freelancer, from 1970 until her retirement in 2005 editorial photographer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In addition, her photographs appeared in numerous books, weekly newspapers and magazines.

She focuses on subjects from politics and the arts section, their consistently black and white photographed images cover a wide range of press photography. Their portraits, landscapes and cultural impressions of her travels are the outstanding issues in her oeuvre. Barbara Klemm is pointed out by critics as a photographer that really stand out for a balanced, often subtle chosen photograph. Your photos are far beyond the ephemeral, the mere day's events illustrative "ordinary" press photography. Some of their recordings, such as those of Willy Brandt and Leonid Brezhnev or Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, count as visual icons now for " photographic memory" of West German society.

Barbara Klemm is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and Honorary Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

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"Your royal discipline [ ... ] is the portrait. She has portrayed the great and the much larger, but never seen with her giant, but only nerds in their workplaces, grumpy or lively beings in the various stages of self-assertion. [ ... ] Loneliness is visible at her as a function of the ambience. The interiors tell their own story, behind the back of the person portrayed. "

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Group exhibitions ( selection)

Awards

Works

  • Sabine Gerbaulet: Primary Schools, Nursery School (photos), Kronberg im Taunus 1977.
  • Barbara Klemm: September 13 to November 9, 1985, Berlin 1985 ( Photographs 1968-1985, exhibition catalog )
  • Images, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • Pictures of foregoing, sitting, waiting, reportage photography, Frankfurt am Main 1991 ( with Barbara Catoir )
  • Günter de Bruyn: My Brandenburg ( photos), Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Walter Haubrich, Eva Karnofsky: Latin American cities (photos), Frankfurt / Leipzig 1994.
  • View to the East, 1970-1995, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Thomas Steinfeld ( photos): Weimar, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Our years. Pictures from Germany 1968-1998, Berlin 1999 ( exhibition catalog).
  • Artist Portraits (with Wilfried Wiegand ) published in 2004 by Nicolai Verlag, Berlin.
  • Time jump. Erich Salomon. Barbara Klemm, ( exhibition catalog ), Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa ), Stuttgart, 2007.
  • Memory training, (photos to records by Hans Dieter Schäfer), published in 2009 by Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt in a limited, signed edition of 400 copies, ISBN 978-3-907142-48-6.
  • Streets images ( with introductions by Barbara Catoir and Hans Magnus Enzensberger ), limited edition of Nimbus Publishing, Wadenswil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland ISBN 978-3-907142-48-6. At the same time a copy of the FAZ ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) in a limited edition of 100 copies.
  • Barbara Klemm. Chiaroscuro. Photographs from Germany, ( exhibition catalog ), Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa ), Stuttgart, 2009.
  • Abiku, (photos by Barbara Klemm and Robert Lebeck poems of Wole Soyinka ), Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2012, ISBN 978-3-929566-89-5.
  • Photographs 1968-2013 ( with contributions by Hans -Michael Koetzle and Durs Grünbein ), Nimbus Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-3-907142-93-6.
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