E.O. Hopp: The German Work: 1925-1938

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Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hopp traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country's history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its heyday. He saw the rise of fascism, the creation of vast new suburbs, and the displacement of people from their traditional ways of life. With unprecedented access to the country's world-famous factories and industrial installations, he witnessed Germany as few others could-barreling headlong into the unknown. Moving, insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hopp's German work has been unknown until now. This volume combines photographs published in Hopp's legendary book of 1930, Deutsche Arbeit, with many new pictures never previously seen. From factory floor to the commuters of Berlin and Munich, Hopp's photographs reveal the profound social and economic tensions that preceded the Second World War. This publication uncovers Hopp as a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary photographic practice. Hopp used his experience in Germany to develop a new modern style of photography-showing not just how things looked, but how it felt to be there.

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Phillip Prodger is a curator, author and art historian. Currently Executive Director of Curatorial Exhibitions in Los Angeles, he was formerly Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London and founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. His previous books include William Eggleston Portraits, Darwins Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution and Man Ray | Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism.