{"product_id":"the-absolute-realist-albert-renger-patzsch-9781606067802","title":"The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis annotated anthology presents the first English translation of German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch's collected writings.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A towering figure in the history of photography, Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) has come to epitomize New Objectivity, the neorealist movement in modernist literature, film, and the visual arts recognized as the signature artistic style of Germany's Weimar Republic. Today, his images are regularly exhibited and widely considered key influences on contemporary photographers. Whether they capture geometrically intricate cacti, flooded tidal landscapes, stacks of raw materials, or imposing blast furnace towers, Renger-Patzsch's photographs embody what his peer Hugo Sieker termed \"absolute realism,\" an approach predicated upon the idea that photographers have one task: to exploit the camera's unique capacity to document with uncompromising detail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not only a photographer, Renger-Patzsch was also an influential and lucid writer who advocated his unique brand of uncompromising realism in almost a half century's worth of articles, essays, lectures, brochures, and unpublished manuscripts addressing photography, technology, and modernity. Drawing on his papers at the Getty Research Institute and other archives, \u003ci\u003eThe Absolute Realist \u003c\/i\u003eunites in one volume this skillful photographer's ideas about the defining visual medium of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Renger-Patzsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 160606780X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606067802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Getty Research Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.92h x 7.01w x 1.18d","brand":"Albert Renger-Patzsch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173234602239,"sku":"9781606067802","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45c96b2d-1dbb-48b3-a594-5513ece1780a.jpg?v=1689791728","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-absolute-realist-albert-renger-patzsch-9781606067802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}