Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object

by Donald B. Kuspit, Albert Renger-Patzsch

Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch
Preface by Weston Naef
Essay by Donald Kuspit

Albert Joy Before the Object is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography. Amid the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined.

Genres: Photography

80 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 1993

About the author

Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics.