Günter Rössler died - Film about him in the cinema this year

[AgX]

Günter Rössler died on the last day of the year.

He was one of the most famous nude-photographers of the GDR. He even got his photos into the Playboy, a magazine not available in the GDR...

He is one of the few photographers a full-length movie documentary is devoted to which just has been released at german cinemas and on DVD:

"Die Genialität des Augenblicks" [The ingenuity of the moment]
At least the DVD version is English subtitled.

trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icsz1NFcZN4


Actually I myself only know of two popular GDR nude photographers: Günter Rössler and Klaus Ender.
The latter was rather into all-natural landscape related nude photograhy.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

A lot of Turkish boys learned the techniques from German University Videos ah schön is the only sentence I learned in German

 

[Slixtiesix]

A sad loss indeed, but he had lived a long and prolific life. One of the best nude photographers ever in my opinion!

 

[AgX]

A lot of Turkish boys learned the techniques from German University Videos

Nude photography lessons from german university videos? I somehow seem to have missed something at university...

 

[bitnaut]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtE0_u91p0

English subtitled version of the trailer…

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[AgX]

Rössler did fashion photography too. The "socialistic woman in fashion", as that was the way it had to be done.

Though not all his photos fit that frame.

http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/5411/volkseigene_models.html

 

[AgX]

A better fit would be these photographs by Ute Mahler (the first one published in the same GDR fashion magazine as many by Günter Rössler).

http://www.baunetz.de/img/44919507_ddae95034b.jpeg

http://evewithoutadam.net/files/2010/02/Picture-38.png

 

[jvo]

thanks for the update....

the dvd (english subtitles) doesn't seem to be available...

jvo

 

[AgX]

I found it (with English subtitles) at german Amazon (it is not listed at Amazon.com):

http://www.amazon.de/Die-Genialit%C3%A4t-Augenblicks-Fotograf-R%C3%B6ssler/dp/B009ZQ2UNU/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1357444819&sr=8-4

 

[AgX]

Concerning GDR fashion photography: here some samples out of that renown fashion magazine Sybille

http://www.welt.de/lifestyle/article8430943/Sybille-Republikflucht-mit-aesthetischen-Mitteln.html