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Turmalin - Wirklichkeit eines Traumes, Wien

by Gerhard Trumler

Photographs: Gerhard Trumler

Text: Ingeborg Bachmann, Adalbert Stifter

Publisher: Bibliothek der Provinz

156 pages

Year: Jänner 2000

ISBN: 978-3-85252-351-4

Price: 69 €

Comments: 30×28 cm, hardcover

Among Austria’s young photographers there are a thousand talents. The older guard, however, has grown thin. Ernst Haas, the famous one, died young, scarcely sixty. His long-time companion, Inge Morath, is the last woman among those known beyond the country’s borders. Among the men there are Franz Hubmann, Erich Lessing—and Gerhard Trumler, the youngest in the guard of polyglot, light-hungry grey panthers.

Out of prudence, and probably not out of modesty—which in photographers of this stature would in any case have bordered on coquetry—Trumler, in promoting his subject “Vienna” and his photographs, has appended the texts of the best possible author: Adalbert Stifter.

The picture book follows the tradition of the great American photographers around Stieglitz (An American Place): photographed in the strict black and white of artists of light, printed without cropping the original, developed with maximum tonal gradation, and supervised during printing with argus eyes—something that usually drives publishers who are not one hundred percent in love with quality to madness.

Gerhard Trumler himself is best imagined as a personality in two parts. In conversation with people he likes he is temperamental to the point of restlessness, at times painfully intense and erratic—and yet he can go out alone for hours or days and see images that a restless person would never see. His photographic techniques and tools are, of course, first-class (Leica, Hasselblad); his exposures and film development have long since become intuitive through experience; and his standards for the final product are boundless. After many successful years and many books, only the very best still makes sense.

(Helmut A. Gansterer)

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Turmalin - Wirklichkeit eines Traumes, Wien

by Gerhard Trumler

Photographs: Gerhard Trumler

Text: Ingeborg Bachmann, Adalbert Stifter

Publisher: Bibliothek der Provinz

156 pages

Year: Jänner 2000

ISBN: 978-3-85252-351-4

Price: 69 €

Comments: 30×28 cm, hardcover

Among Austria’s young photographers there are a thousand talents. The older guard, however, has grown thin. Ernst Haas, the famous one, died young, scarcely sixty. His long-time companion, Inge Morath, is the last woman among those known beyond the country’s borders. Among the men there are Franz Hubmann, Erich Lessing—and Gerhard Trumler, the youngest in the guard of polyglot, light-hungry grey panthers.

Out of prudence, and probably not out of modesty—which in photographers of this stature would in any case have bordered on coquetry—Trumler, in promoting his subject “Vienna” and his photographs, has appended the texts of the best possible author: Adalbert Stifter.

The picture book follows the tradition of the great American photographers around Stieglitz (An American Place): photographed in the strict black and white of artists of light, printed without cropping the original, developed with maximum tonal gradation, and supervised during printing with argus eyes—something that usually drives publishers who are not one hundred percent in love with quality to madness.

Gerhard Trumler himself is best imagined as a personality in two parts. In conversation with people he likes he is temperamental to the point of restlessness, at times painfully intense and erratic—and yet he can go out alone for hours or days and see images that a restless person would never see. His photographic techniques and tools are, of course, first-class (Leica, Hasselblad); his exposures and film development have long since become intuitive through experience; and his standards for the final product are boundless. After many successful years and many books, only the very best still makes sense.

(Helmut A. Gansterer)

More books by Gerhard Trumler