Roswitha Hecke

Roswitha Hecke ( * 1944 in Hamburg) is a German photographer.

Life

Roswitha Hecke learned after her apprenticeship as a photographer, director Peter Zadek and photographed for years his productions, and later also by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and in Paris films by Éric Rohmer. They lived together for several years with the writer Wolf Wondratschek with which she moved into the '70s by America and together the book "people- places - fists " published. Portrait hedge made ​​recordings by numerous artists, including Omar Sharif, Heinz Bennents, Ingrid Caven and Andrés Segovia. Her book " Love Life" on Zürcher prostitute Irene in 1979 awarded the " Kodak Award " for the best photo book and 1982 as "the most beautiful book" of the Book Art Foundation. Numerous trips led hedge in all continents, three years she lived in Morocco and in 2002 they moved to St. Petersburg, where she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts ( Photography Master Class ). Hedge has two sons and lives in Hamburg.

Photo Art

Roswitha Hecke tried with her ​​candid images, to explore strange, often simple environments and worlds. She watched closely, unprejudiced and sensitive. Some Photography cycles deal with people on the margins of society: transvestites, homeless and prostitutes, where she lets her dignity in the pictures. Another issue is their confrontation with the " fascination of man" and the expressions of machismo. Your images they published in numerous magazines, such as in Vogue, Twen, Star, Playboy, theater today, Time and mirrors. About her work from the director of the judges " Berliner Festspiele " Joachim Sartorius: " She never makes their 'models' ridiculous, but they do not also glorified. Never hear her eye on to ask. Thus, their images are also sincere, sometimes humorous, and always unique. "

Exhibitions

  • Love life. Images with Irene. Image band. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich 1979, ISBN. 3-8077-0100-1.
  • Blot til lyst. images med Irene. Sandberg, Oslo 1982, ISBN 82-7316-144-7.
  • Man for man. Image band. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-498-02883-9.
  • Japanese edition of Love Life. JICC Shuppankyoku. Tokyo 1993, ISBN 4-7966-0582-7.
  • Pigalle. With a text by Joachim Sartorius. German and English. König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-162-9.
  • Secret Views. Photographs 1964 to today. Exhibition catalog and book. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8296-0325-6.
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