Helmar lerski ordinary heads review

Helmar lerski ordinary heads review: Lerski's extreme camera perspectives and

To celebrate its 20 th anniversary and the 70 th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, the mahJ presents the first exhibition in France dedicated to the photographer Helmar Lerski Before becoming one of the pioneers of photography and film in Palestine, Helmar Lerski was an innovative photographer in the United States from and a leading figure of the avant-garde in Berlin in the s and s.

In his photography, primarily portraits and influenced by theatre and cinema, he pursued his own, unique exploration of the expressive possibilities of light. There, he worked as an actor for a German-speaking theatre in Milwaukee from to , adopting the pseudonym Helmar Lerski. In , he opened a photography studio with his first wife, Emilie Bertha Rossbach, specializing in portraits.

His use of light soon attracted attention. In , he became technical director of Deutsche Bioscop, working with the film director Robert Reinert until on twentythree feature films, including Ahasver , a trilogy recounting the adventures of the. Wandering Jew, and the box-office successes Opium and Nerven Nerves , Helmar Lerski returned to photography in the late s.

But he soon forsook portraits of personalities to photograph anonymous people, framing and lighting them during long posing sessions. The formal daring of this series, published in Berlin in as Everyday Heads , brought him close to the avant-garde, particularly to the photographers of the New Vision movement. For this purpose, he went to Palestine, later settling there in