| Dates: | 1900, 5 April - 1985 | | Born: | Austria, Haag | | Active: | Germany / US | | Gender: | Male |
Herbert Bayer combined considerable talent in both graphic design and photography and this was reflected earlier in his career as a teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany (1925-28). During the 1930s he was influential in advertising and commercial design and in 1938 he moved to the USA.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Bayer, Herbert, 1977, Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works, (Los Angeles: Arco Center for Visual Art) [Essay by Beaumont Newhall] [Δ]
Chanzit, Gwen F., 1988, Herbert Bayer: Collection and Archive of the Denver Art Museum, (University of Washington Press) isbn-10: 0295966971 isbn-13: 978-0295966977 [Δ]
Cohen, Arthur A, 1984, Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work, (Cambridge: The MIT Press) [Δ]
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| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.]
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.145 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.56-57
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.]
• Fernandez, Horacio (ed.) 2000 Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 (Aldeasa) p.52-53 [This Spanish exhibition catalogue is one of the best sources for illustrations of photomontage and book design for the period between the two World Wars.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Herbert Bayer.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Gruber, Renate and L. Fritz Gruber 1982 The Imaginary Photo Museum (New York: Harmony Books) p.240-241
• Newhall, Beaumont 1982 The History of Photography - Fifth Edition (London: Secker & Warburg) [One or more photographs by Herbert Bayer are included in this classic history.]
• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.206, Plate 51 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of Herbert Bayer this is a useful starting point.]
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