Bodo von Dewitz
La Boheme Artists in the 19th and 20th century photography
Steidl
Henry Murger described within his novel La Bohème for the first time in history the life and struggle of poor artists within bourgeois society. This was the beginning of the romantic myth of the independent, anarchistic spirit of creative artists. In that context photography played an important role, used by the artists for self-exposure and to document their working conditions and leisure. The bohemian legend persists in literature, on stage and film, as well as in the attitudes of numerous artists of our own time. This book assembles daguerreotypes and photographs of painters, sculptures, writers and actors, portraits and group pictures, pictures of studio interiors and parties from the late Biedermeier over the Belle Epoche up to the 19th and 20th Century.
Besides the pictures from famous photographers as Nadar, Alois Löcherer, Wilkie Wynfield, J.M. Cameron, August Sander and Lux Feininger, the book contains numerous unusual pictures of unknown “masters”.
Bodo von Dewitz, born in 1950, is director of the Agfa Foto-Historama of Museum Ludwig in Cologne since 1985. He is the initiator of numerous exhibitions on the cultural history of photography.
La Boheme Artists in the 19th and 20th century photography by Bodo von Dewitz
320 pages
25 cm x 28 cm
Hardcover
Steidl & Partners
ISBN: 978-3-86930-139-6
UK £52.00
US $75.00
EC €58.00
Publication date: October 2010
