New York 60s

Description

Born in Munich, Sepp Werkmeister has over the course of the last decades made a name for himself as one of Germany's leading jazz photographers. He created insightful black-and-white portraits of all of the greats, from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis in Munich, New York and at international festivals. His New York cityscapes of the 1960s and 1970s, which provide fascinating insights into the everyday life of the American metropolis, have remained entirely unknown, however. Werkmeister captured the entire panorama of New York's urban society using his Rolleiflex camera: the rubbish, the stranded and the homeless on the one hand, and the rich and fashionably dressed inhabitants on the other hand. This publication presents more than 120 pictures from the photographer's archive.

Ulrich Pohlmann is head curator of the photo collection at the Stadtmuseum, Munich.

"Street style fills our feeds with endless snaps from photographers hitting the streets at fashion weeks and the like. . . . There's one name (besides Bill Cunningham) that takes us back to when it first began. Meet renowned jazz photographer Sepp Werkmeister, who first shot performances with icons such as Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis. In the midst of all that jazz, Werkmeister turned his camera to the streets of NYC capturing the people of Harlem, the East Village, and Times Square."-- "High Snobiety" (1/14/2016 12:00:00 AM) Sepp Werkmeister spent the 1960s and '70s photographing jazz luminaries like Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis, which meant he spent an awful lot of time traipsing around New York. So he started taking photos between performances, too, capturing the streets of Harlem, the East Village, and Times Square, along with their inhabitants. Those cityscapes can be seen together for the first time in New York: Sepp Werkmeister. Covering 1965 to 1975, they show just how much New York can change in a decade."-- "New York magazine, The Cut" (1/14/2016 12:00:00 AM)