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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Leni Riefenstahl

Names:
Born: Berra Helene Amalia Riefenstahl 
Dates:  1902, 22 August - 2003, 8 September
Born:  Germany, Berlin
Active:  Germany / Africa
Gender:  Female
 
  
German filmmaker, painter, actress, dancer and photographer.

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Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Bach, Steven, 2008, Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl, (Vintage) isbn-10: 0307387755 isbn-13: 978-0307387752 [LL_REF:1936
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1933, Kampf in Schnee und Eis, (Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag) [LL_REF:1942 *B
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1936, Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf, (Berlin, Im Deutschen Verlag) [LL_REF:1943 *B
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1974, The Last of the Nuba, (Harper & Row) isbn-10: 0060135492 isbn-13: 978-0060135492 [LL_REF:1938
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1978, Coral Gardens, (Harpercollins) isbn-10: 0060135913 isbn-13: 978-0060135911 [LL_REF:1940
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1988, Vanishing Africa, (Harmony) isbn-10: 051754914X isbn-13: 978-0517549148 [LL_REF:1939
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1994, Olympia, (St Martins Press) isbn-10: 0312113714 isbn-13: 978-0312113711 [LL_REF:1941
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1995, Leni Riefenstahl, (Picador) isbn-10: 0312119267 isbn-13: 978-0312119263 [LL_REF:1935
  
Riefenstahl, Leni, 2010, Africa, (Taschen) isbn-10: 3836523175 isbn-13: 978-3836523172 [LL_REF:1937
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
 
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Leni Riefenstahl
Self portrait of Len Riefenstahl with Leica camera 
1939 
  
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Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
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Internet biographies

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
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
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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