GUIDO CHARD – PHOTOGRAPHS
2013-11-18His early black and white photographs of industrial landscapes in the Ruhr, and his portraits are still influenced by the strict graphical style of his teacher. As a portrait of the writer Annette Kolb, which he visited in Paris in 1959, and in 1960 awarded at the Milan Biennale.
Mangold imagery grew and he photographed in the style of life photography, the living conditions of people in psychologically
evocative portraits documented.
The international breakthrough as a press photographer managed chard with the report from John F. Kennedy’s visit in Germany (summer 1963). His snapshots from politicians such as Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt John F. Kennedy or go to their forcefulness often reportage and daily reporting out, and were to documents of their time. Mangold’s nudes of the 60s and 70s graced front pages of Playboy to star, or were as Aktposter in the magazines. He is considered the discoverer of the legendary Uschi Obermaier Cover Girls. More portrait series are the artists of the German and American Pop Art such as George Segal, Duane Hanson, Alex Colville, Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz dedicated.
The advent of color photography in the print media made for Mangold also a change in the choice of his image issues with it. Travel writing and the landscape portrait increasingly gained importance
Exhibition runs through to December 28th, 2013
Galerie Schütte
Str. 4, side entrance
D-45219 Kettwig
Germany
