Fotografis: Meisterwerke Internationaler Fotografie Der Sammlung FOTOGRAFIS Landerbank

This volume, titled 'Fotografis: Meisterwerke Internationaler Fotografie Der Sammlung FOTOGRAFIS Landerbank', presents a significant selection of works from the Fotografis collection. Founded in 1976 by Bank Austria (later associated with Osterreichische Landerbank), the collection comprises over 1,000 photographs spanning the pioneer era of photography in the 19th century to contemporary works. The publication highlights key movements including Pictorialism and Straight Photography, featuring notable artists such as William Henry Fox Talbot, David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Heinrich Kühn, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. It also includes radical avant-garde contributions from Dadaists and Constructivists like Man Ray, Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko, Raoul Hausmann, and László Moholy-Nagy, as well as significant 20th-century reportage and social documentary photography by figures such as Weegee and Diane Arbus.