Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
HERMANN LANDSHOFF | SELECTED IMAGES
Auction Closed
October 3, 04:15 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
HERMANN LANDSHOFF
1905-1986
SELECTED IMAGES
2 photographs, comprising The Bicyclers and The Roller Skaters, each with the photographer's '227 E 57 Street, New York 22' studio stamp on the reverse, 1946, printed later (2)
Each approximately 10½ by 13 in. (26.7 by 33 cm.)
Ulrich Pohlmann and Andreas Landshoff, eds., Hermann Landshoff: Portrait Mode Architektur, Retrospective 1930-1970 (Munich: Münchner Stadtsmuseum, 2013), pp. 194-95
When the German-born fashion photographer Hermann Landshoff immigrated to New York in 1942, he began working for various American magazines. Made for a 1946 spread in Junior Bazaar, the two photographs offered here capture Landshoff's distinctive approach of placing his models in real-world contexts and activities – a method that influenced the early fashion work of his friend and fellow Alexey Brodovitch disciple Richard Avedon (see Lot 112).