Ruth Hallensleben
Frauenarbeit in der Industrie: Fotografien aus den Jahren 1938-1967
Dirk Nishen Verlag, Berlin, DE, 1985
Kah Jagals, Rolf Sachsse, Ursula Peters, Klaus D. Kuhnekath-Spahn
pages 157
first edition
dimensions 20 × 16.5 cm, softcover
language German
ISBN 9783889406026
pages 157
first edition
dimensions 20 × 16.5 cm, softcover
language German
ISBN 9783889406026
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Ruth Hallensleben
Between 1931 and 1934 she worked as an apprentice for the famous portrait and landscape photographer Elsbeth Gropp. In 1934, she opened her own studio. After training in portrait photography, she took up her predestined role as an industrial photographer. Her work is not only a poetic vision or a technical experiment but is also a testimony to the historical period she lived in, Germany during the 20th century. Very little room is left to individualism in the name of a more global vision. In 1945, fearing that the allied forces would confiscate all her photographic equipment and archives, she put all this material in three boxes which she buried in the forest of Wiehl. Three years later, two of the three boxes were found with their contents undamaged and she was able to resume her photographic activity.
Between 1931 and 1934 she worked as an apprentice for the famous portrait and landscape photographer Elsbeth Gropp. In 1934, she opened her own studio. After training in portrait photography, she took up her predestined role as an industrial photographer. Her work is not only a poetic vision or a technical experiment but is also a testimony to the historical period she lived in, Germany during the 20th century. Very little room is left to individualism in the name of a more global vision. In 1945, fearing that the allied forces would confiscate all her photographic equipment and archives, she put all this material in three boxes which she buried in the forest of Wiehl. Three years later, two of the three boxes were found with their contents undamaged and she was able to resume her photographic activity.
