Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object

Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch
Preface by Weston Naef
Essay by Donald Kuspit

Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography. Amid the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined.