Albert Renger-Patzsch

What prompted this were statements that challenged me, including “Photography can never be art” by Pawek or Albert Renger-Patzsch’s description of art photography as a “dubious genre: neither art nor photography.” That sentence had already annoyed me during my studies.

Gottfried Jäger, Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being

But our art and our teaching followed historically opposing photographic paths: they referred back to Albert Renger-Patzsch, whereas I followed the traces of Heinz Hajek-Halke and László Moholy-Nagy.

Gottfried Jäger, Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being