The Düsseldorf School of Photography

The work and teachings of Hilla and Bernd Becher who in 1976 gave artistic photography an institutional roof at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Today, Grieger Lab produces large prints for more than 150 artists the world over. And finally the image factory, Grieger Lab, where the artists discovered the technical potential of large format photography. Three generations of celebrated artists have since emerged: Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Petra Wunderlich, Axel Hütte, Elger Esser, Laurenz Berges et al. The book offers for the first time an encyclopedic overview of the artists and introduces them with their best-known pictures. There has been no other art movement in Germany since the Bauhaus to possess such a worldwide appeal as this new Düsseldorf Scho

The author of numerous books on classic, modern, and contemporary art, he regularly lectures on 20th and 21th-century photography. Stefan Gronert, born in 1964, is a curator at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and teaches art history at the University of Bonn.

--Richard Woodward, Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2010 . "The Düsseldorf School of Photography is a must buy for anyone interested in contemporary photography the book can serve as a fantastic introduction to the people who made contemporary photography what it currently is." --Joerg Colberg --Conscientious BlogAnyone hoping to comprehend art photography today must reckon with the crystalline, super-sized work of Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and other Germans who studied in the 1970s and '80s under Bernd and Hilla Becher. In Stefan Gronert's "The Düsseldorf School of Photography," superbly printed images by these artists--Mr. Gursky's hypnotic picture of a "99 Cent" store in California, for starters--accompany a helpful essay that fills in gaps a

"Must have brief survey of the Dusseldorf School" according to Jeff Botz. A little expensive but the reproductions are excellent and the represents a short introduction to the school and then to the individual photographers included.. "Five Stars" according to La Brea Books. The Best Fashion Book!. "Excellent" according to BfloBen. This beautifully illustrated and classy publication is well worth reading. The introduction is informative and insightful about the photographers, their background and their photos. The photos range from the seemingly banal to the strikingly artistic. I returned several times to some of the photos to look for the point, the content, the meaning and each time discovered a bit more and learned more about the subtle and aesthetic qualities of ph