Andy Grundberg Article Review-Ellen Auerbach Dies at 98

Andy Grundberg analyzes photo galleries, illuminates audiences to arts extravagance, and celebrates the movements of photography in our modern world. His duties to the arts do not stop their as he also has taken it upon himself to celebrate photographers and artists that have left our world.

In this article Andy Grundbery celebrates the life and the work of photographer and artist Ellen Auerbach.
Born in Germany in 1906, Ellen Auerbach's work would take place primarily during the Weimer Period (1929-1933). Partnering with Grete Stern they made a photography shop called Pit & Ringl which sought to redefine the way in which woman were photographed. Andy Grundberg cites there surrealist and constructivist nature, their styles helping to define the artistic era called the New Vision.

Andy Grundberg's article is respectful, and creates an interesting look into the lives of photographers. Many photographers begin photography with a fascination with what they could capture, that being certain subjects that circulate around their lives. Ellen Auerbach wanted to make a living (after seeing no money in sculpture) and took photographs in germany up until Hitler's rise to power when she moved to Tel Aviv. She would later open up a childrens portrait shop there, and also get married. Ellen was fascinated with the psychology of children, which makes me think about the way in which photography functions to preserve its subject. A photograph of a child can be naive, and pure, while also being devious and full of moxie, that feeling of "newness" to the world so interesting a subject.