Ellen Auerbach - Berlijn • Tel Aviv • New York

The reader/viewer follows Ellen Auerbach through the places of her exile and accompanies her on her travels through Latin America and Western Europe.

Ellen Auerbach's career as a photographer began in Berlin, where she took lessons from Bauhaus photographer Walter Peterhans. However, Germany soon became too dangerous for Ellen Auerbach (then still Ellen Rosenberg), who was Jewish. Shortly after the National Socialists seized power in 1933, she emigrated with her future husband Walter Auerbach, first to Palestine, where she started a studio for children's photography, and later to England. Here, too, she was unable to gain a foothold as a photographer. Finally, she emigrated to the United States, where she died in her New York home in 2004 at the age of 98.

Ellen Auerbach's photographs always bear witness to a personal search for meaning. The spectrum of her photographic motifs ranges from advertising photography, landscape and portraiture to street photography. She approaches people in foreign countries with her camera with interest and empathy. She is never intrusive or condescending, but neither does she take an explicitly socially critical stance.

48 pages
23 x 28 cm
42 photographs
paperback
Dutch
ISBN 9789462620698
€10.25