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Else ThalemannGerman Photographer · 1901–1984
All works by this person →Else Thalemann worked as a photojournalist in Berlin in the 1930s. She worked as Ernst Fuhrmann's assistant at the Folkwang Auriga-Archiv in Essen. Little else is known about her life and work, due in part to the fact that much of her published work was credited to others. Her output ranged from formal studies to political photo-essays. Thalemann visited Paris in the 1920s, where she photographed
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- about 1926
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Like Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander, Else Thalemann believed beauty was inherent both in nature and in human constructions. She chose to document commonplace subjects like locomotives, which were part of the industry in Germany's Ruhr region. Thalemann's cropped composition of the powerful wheels of a steam engine challenged 1920s thinking about suitable subject matter, forcefully presenting the notion of beauty in everyday things.
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