Fotohof 001 app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Fotohof
First release : 24 Jun 2011
App size: 26.48 Mb
Fotohof edition – Gerti Deutsch
The photographs of Gerti Deutsch are a debut release of Fotohof edition and for the first time provide an insight into the complete photographic work of Gerti Deutsch. It runs from artistic portraits dating from the 30s in Vienna through her most creative period as a photojournalist for the English magazine Picture Post, to moving pictures of post-war Vienna as well as projects for books in the 60s which were never realised.
Gerti Deutschs life is a mirror image of the past century: born into a bourgeois Jewish family in Vienna, she worked in exile in London as one of a small number of woman photographers for Picture Post, the leading picture magazine of the time to which, in the immediate post-war period, she also contributed features shot in her previous home town of Vienna. In the late 60s, after a stay in Italy, she returned for a lengthy period to Austria.
The pictures are accompanied by a biography from her daughter Amanda Hopkinson, who is herself a distinguished photo historian and Kurt Kaindl, a specialist in photographic theory who provides introductions to the photographs.