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F. C. Gundlach – 90 Years In 90 Photos
He is known for his fashion photographs from all over the world – in front of the pyramids of Giza, on the rooftops of Manhattan, in the port of Hamburg. F. C. Gundlach is 90 and in Berlin 90 of his photographs.
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“Tights-Ballad”
This daring acrobatic display has taken Gundlach, 1959 in the port of Hamburg and, exceptionally, in color! From the series, there are several Works in the exhibition that show the ballet dancers in different positions and scenes at the port of Hamburg. This is the only picture of the photographer in the color allowed to develop.
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Op Art with graphic Patterns
The classic: photograph model Brigitte Bauer is posing in the abstract-patterned swimsuit against the backdrop of a modern architectural Ensembles. In 1966, in Greece, is this one of the most famous Op Art-pictures of famous photographers. Not a classic model pose, the face-eyes with oversized sunglasses. The fashion and the Style of the time are the focus here.
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The beautiful Alraune
At the rotary in 1952, the German horror film “Alraune” shot by F. C. Gundlach, an unusual image of the actress Hildegard Knef. Your role as the mysterious Mandrake, is actually a scientific Experiment. The mysterious Soul of the beautiful Alraune is deliberately emphasized by the incidence of light.
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“Light and shadow”
In 1947, two years after the end of the war was Gundlach as a photo-reporter on-the-go. Even then, mirrors Gundlach’s reflect the Zeitgeist. This photograph shows a view of light at the end of the dark tunnel, from which the soldier flees. A metaphor for the end of the Second world war.
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Sixties in Paris
“The city photographed from alone,” says Gundlach. In 1950 he traveled as a young Reporter for the first Time in his life in the French capital. A decade later, a whole photo series is created with models Karl Fehrmann (li) and Karin Mossberg – here in the creations of Pierre Cardin dressed.
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Trend Polka Dots
In the sixties points were big in the Trend here Mirella shows the fashion of “Staebe-Seger” in 1964. This time, the fashion photographer had to travel far, to the former spirit of the times noted – he found him in the capital of his homeland, Berlin.
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In front of the pyramids…
Karin Mossberg close – this is a very personal portrait was created in 1966 in Egypt, near the pyramid of Cheops of Giza. At the same time, photographed by F. C. Gundlach there is also the famous picture of Karin Mossberg and Micky Zenati directly in front of the pyramids – in Op-Art Fashion. An icon of fashion photography.
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Gaudy and brash
As a photo-model Uschi obermaier was only good when she was naked, he says. Here he created with the dressed Model is spontaneously a masterpiece: “I have chosen for my exhibition, a picture of her, I have found only with difficulty”, explained the photographer. “Shell had at the time, at all stations, large dolls life around and I have it set just between the dolls.”
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Mystical and magical
“How in the shimmering light in the Shine of crystal chandeliers”, so the title of this 1957 resulting photo series. With such Glamour photography-F. C. Gundlach became famous. This work shows Simone D’Aillencourt in a Golden dress made of silk with mink verbrämtem Chiffon Kimono. The fashion was the route in the autumn-Winter fashion issue of the year 1957/58 the magazine “Film und Frau” is printed.
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The photographer as a Model
Photographers are occasionally brought in front of the lens. Here is the F. C. Gundlach for Esther Haase posing. With ten years the young Franz Christian Gundlach (Jg got. 1926), his first camera: Agfa Box. The parental bathroom to serve as darkroom. In 1946, he began to photograph professionally. 16. July, he is 90 years old.
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“Tights-Ballad”
This daring acrobatic display has taken Gundlach, 1959 in the port of Hamburg and, exceptionally, in color! From the series, there are several Works in the exhibition that show the ballet dancers in different positions and scenes at the port of Hamburg. This is the only picture of the photographer in the color allowed to develop.
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Op Art with graphic Patterns
The classic: photograph model Brigitte Bauer is posing in the abstract-patterned swimsuit against the backdrop of a modern architectural Ensembles. In 1966, in Greece, is this one of the most famous Op Art-pictures of famous photographers. Not a classic model pose, the face-eyes with oversized sunglasses. The fashion and the Style of the time are the focus here.
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The beautiful Alraune
At the rotary in 1952, the German horror film “Alraune” shot by F. C. Gundlach, an unusual image of the actress Hildegard Knef. Your role as the mysterious Mandrake, is actually a scientific Experiment. The mysterious Soul of the beautiful Alraune is deliberately emphasized by the incidence of light.
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“Light and shadow”
In 1947, two years after the end of the war was Gundlach as a photo-reporter on-the-go. Even then, mirrors Gundlach’s reflect the Zeitgeist. This photograph shows a view of light at the end of the dark tunnel, from which the soldier flees. A metaphor for the end of the Second world war.
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Sixties in Paris
“The city photographed from alone,” says Gundlach. In 1950 he traveled as a young Reporter for the first Time in his life in the French capital. A decade later, a whole photo series is created with models Karl Fehrmann (li) and Karin Mossberg – here in the creations of Pierre Cardin dressed.
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Trend Polka Dots
In the sixties points were big in the Trend here Mirella shows the fashion of “Staebe-Seger” in 1964. This time, the fashion photographer had to travel far, to the former spirit of the times noted – he found him in the capital of his homeland, Berlin.
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In front of the pyramids…
Karin Mossberg close – this is a very personal portrait was created in 1966 in Egypt, near the pyramid of Cheops of Giza. At the same time, photographed by F. C. Gundlach there is also the famous picture of Karin Mossberg and Micky Zenati directly in front of the pyramids – in Op-Art Fashion. An icon of fashion photography.
-
Gaudy and brash
As a photo-model Uschi obermaier was only good when she was naked, he says. Here he created with the dressed Model is spontaneously a masterpiece: “I have chosen for my exhibition, a picture of her, I have found only with difficulty”, explained the photographer. “Shell had at the time, at all stations, large dolls life around and I have it set just between the dolls.”
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Mystical and magical
“How in the shimmering light in the Shine of crystal chandeliers”, so the title of this 1957 resulting photo series. With such Glamour photography-F. C. Gundlach became famous. This work shows Simone D’Aillencourt in a Golden dress made of silk with mink verbrämtem Chiffon Kimono. The fashion was the route in the autumn-Winter fashion issue of the year 1957/58 the magazine “Film und Frau” is printed.
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The photographer as a Model
Photographers are occasionally brought in front of the lens. Here is the F. C. Gundlach for Esther Haase posing. With ten years the young Franz Christian Gundlach (Jg got. 1926), his first camera: Agfa Box. The parental bathroom to serve as darkroom. In 1946, he began to photograph professionally. 16. July, he is 90 years old.
On the occasion of his 90. Birthday draws legendary photographer F. C. Gundlach is a very personal balance sheet: with an exhibition at the Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery in Berlin. “F. C. Gundlach – 90 years in 90 photos” is the name of the show, compiled by the Hamburg-based photographer alone – selected from thousands of photo of the last decades work. With ten, he started to photograph. The photographic craft he learned at a private photography school in Kassel.
Gundlach has become, especially for his artistic fashion photography, but also for his experimental Work. Creative and with an artistic eye, he combines fashion, nature and modern architecture in almost graphical snapshots. He is portrayed in radically lit Black-and-White photos of famous faces of movie stars such as Yves Montand, Simone Signoret or Romy Schneider. And he keeps his surroundings in a fairy-tale pictures.
Fashion photography 1960: “Flamingo Man”
Master of elegance
In particular, his fashion photographs of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, provided him with a photographer of international Reputation as well as a German fashion: He was to busy star photographers of the West German fashion scene. The exhibition “90 years, 90 photos” in Berlin invites you to a journey through the fashion world – with detours to Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
To see Works from the 1950s are in Berlin, the Haute Couture of Parisian fashion houses, as well as impressive architecture, natural landscapes and portraits of artists, to Look recorded on different continents.
But the F. C. Gundlach is not only a photographer, but also a gallerist, collector, high school teacher, curator, and founder. He initiated in 1999 in Hamburg triennial of Photography, and was appointed in September 2003 as the founding Director for the “Haus der Photographie” in Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen.
Photography icon: Op-Art-Fashion in front of Cheops pyramid
He was born on the 16. In July of 1926, when Franz Christian Gundlach in a small village in Hessen. His interest in photography was kindled early – already as a child he got his first camera, an Agfa-Box, with a self-timer. “My first photo I made at the age of ten years. In 1936, I got a Box with a seat made of silver as a gift. You could photograph for the first time, a Selfie!”, the famous fashion photographer, told in an Interview.
Life in the war
Two years later, in 1938, he established himself in the bathroom of his parents, a darkroom for developing his photos from behind the shower curtain. As Hitler’s “last stand” had to do with the Amateur photographer in the Second world war military service. Directly after his War school he was employed in 1943 as an air force auxiliary in the Front. In April 1945, he came as a young soldier in an American prisoner of war in a French camp near Nancy. In March 1946 he was transferred then to the prisoner-of-war hospital Göppingen, and shortly afterwards dismissed.
First Photo Coverage
In spite of being a prisoner of war to the budding photographer, his dream job was not to be dissuaded. From 1947 to 1949, he completed a professional training as a photographer at the private educational institution for Modern art, Rolf W. Nehrdich in Kassel. Together with a classmate, he opened in 1948, a private photo Studio.
In the summer of 1949, he worked in the American zone of occupation as a photographer in the film studios in Wiesbaden, Germany, where, at the time, Hollywood stars in and out. In that year he also published his first theatre and film programs in West German magazines such as the “Deutsche illustrierte”, “Quick”, “Film-Revue” and the “star”. From 1953, he specialized in fashion photography in the journalistic style, and began to work for the Hamburg magazine “Film und Frau”.
Always traveling…
His breakthrough, F. C. Gundlach succeeded, finally, in the 1950s and 1960s, with its extraordinary Fashion magazines of movie stars, and his portraits of Artists – among others, he photographed well-known Actresses like Nadja Tiller, Hildegard Knef, but also the French Director Jean-Luc Godard.
F. C. Gundlach lived for a time in France, attracted by the Existentialist scene – “Paris is perhaps the most important city in Europe was, as regards art and atmosphere,” as he later explained in an Interview. Even then, he thrilled us with his photographs from completely different countries and cultures in which he makes his Models pose. His Reporting has led him to the near, Middle and far East and Central and South America. His photographic handwriting is to recognize right off the bat.
In the years 1966 and 1976 F. C. Gundlach founded the company CC (“Creative Color GmbH”) and PPS (the”Professional Photo services”). These companies are Black-and – White and color labs, an Equipment trading, rental studios and Specialist bookshops. The 1976, “Galerie F. C. Gundlach” was one of the first gallery for photography in Germany. In the following two decades, the artist presented more than 100, to be part of pioneering exhibitions.
Working as a Professor and curator
In 1988, he got a reputation as a Professor at the University of the arts in Berlin and started in 1992, his work as a curator for the German and international galleries and museums. And he focused on Collecting photographic works. In 2000, he established the F. C. Gundlach Foundation, the photographer preserves life and always re-issues.
The current exhibition “F. C. Gundlach – 90 years in 90 photos” is from the 2. up to 20. To see August 2016 in the Contemporary Fine Arts gallery in Berlin.