AN INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHER

摘要

Emil Otto Hoppe (1878-1972), an eclectic artist, famed portraitist and one of the leading photographers of modern times, is the subject of a large exhibition organised by Urs Stahel at the MAST in Bologna (until 3.5.2015). "Emil Otto Hoppe: il segreto svelato" presents for the first time in Italy his emblematic pictures of the second industrial revolution, long hidden away in London archives. On display are over 200 photos taken in the 1920s and '30s, when he became an acclaimed topographic photographer and portraitist of some of Europe's most famous artists, politicians and scientists. Hoppe travelled widely, determined to record the grandiosity of industrial sites the world over and the advent of a new era in which the very nature of work and production was changing radically.