{"id":88407,"date":"2015-07-30T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=88407"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:14:32","slug":"five-photographs-by-ellen-auerbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/five-photographs-by-ellen-auerbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Photographs by Ellen Auerbach"},"content":{"rendered":"

From \u201cEllen Auerbach: Classic Works and Collaborations<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery through August 14. Auerbach, who died in 2004, worked in Berlin in the time of the Weimar Republic; she\u2019s remembered for her work with ringl + pit, an advertising studio she started with her friend Grete Stern. The pair found recognition for their photography in what was then a field dominated by men; their pictures vacillated between genres, using surrealism and montage to blur the line between commercialism and fine art.<\/em><\/p>\n

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ringl + pit, Petrole Hahn<\/i>, 1931, silver print mounted to board, 9.25″ x 11″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ellen Auerbach, Sulphur Bath, Big Sur<\/i>, 1949, silver print, 11″ x 14″.<\/p><\/div>

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Seagull, Maine<\/i>, 1941, silver print, 8″ x 9.25″.<\/p><\/div>

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Renate Schottelius<\/i>, 1946, vintage silver print, 6.5″ x 4.5″.<\/p><\/div>

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Male and Mailbox<\/i>, Chile, 1948, vintage silver print, 7.5″ x 10″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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