Publisher's Synopsis
Heinrich Zille (1858-1929) was Berlin's most popular artist, printmaker, and photographer--with famed "milieu" studies that reflected the lived reality of the small man on the street, the heroes of everyday life in late 19th and early 20th-century Berlin. This book presents photographs taken between 1890-1910, classic works in the history of photography and early testimonies of social documentary phtoography in Germany. Documenting his immediate surroundings--his family, streets and markets, Wilhelmine buildings, backyards, taverns, fairgrounds, wood gatherers, nude studies--Zille is a preeminent chronicler of his world and time. With essays by the art historian Wolfgang Kemp and the artists Jeff Wall and Roy Arden. Photographer Thomas Struth produced the prints from Zille's glass plates in 1985.
