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Gundula Schulze Eldowy (born 1954) is a German photographer.

Life

Schulze Eldowy was born in 1954 in Erfurt. In 1972 she moved to East Berlin and studied at the Technical School for Advertising and Design in Berlin-Schöneweide. From 1979 to 1984 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts (School of Visual Arts) in Leipzig for photography, studying with Horst Thorau, Arno Fischer, and Evelyn Richter.[1] Her photographs from the 1970s and 1980s are considered some of the most important visual testimonies to East German daily life.[2] Many of her photographs capture the private lives of others with a direct and unsparing gaze, including the living conditions of those living on the margins of society.[2] By documenting counterculture as well as elderly and disabled members of the community, she called to attention those that had been disregarded by official media, which for the most part was with idealized images of those benefiting from socialist society.[1] From 1977 to 1990, Schulze Eldowy worked on various photo series, which occasionally earned disapproval from the authorities.[3] During this period, she created the black and white cycles Berlin on a Dog's Night, Work, Nude Portraits, Tamerlan, Street Scene, The wind fills itself with water, and two color cycles The Big and the Little Step, and The Dog's Last Bite.[2] Despite both solo and group exhibition opportunities and promotions in the photography journal Die Fotografie, the Stasi still attempted to impede her practice due to the opinion that her work negatively portrayed socialist society.[1]

In 1985 she met American photographer Robert Frank, who encouraged her and invited her to go to New York in 1990, where she lived from 1990 to 1993. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schulze Eldowy led a nomadic lifestyle[4] and continued to photograph during her travels in Italy (1991), Egypt (1993-2000), Japan (1996/97), Moscow (1997), Turkey (1997) and finally in Peru and Bolivia in the 2000s.[5] In 2004, together with her husband Javier A. Garcia Vásquez, she founded the Casa de Arte El Rostro Inconcebible in Moche, Peru.[6] In 2010 she became a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts.[5]

Schulze Eldowy lives in Berlin and Peru. In addition to her photographic and film work, she has created stories, poems, essays, sound collages and songs.[5]

Recent exhibitions and collections

Schulze Eldowy's work was included in the 2010–2011 MoMA exhibition Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography.[7] In 2011 to 2012 she had a yearlong retrospective at C/O Berlin,[8] a solo exhibition at Kicken Berlin, and a display at German parliament’s art room and the Berlin Wall memorial.[9] Her photographs are included in a number of exhibitions on East German photography, such as "Do Not Refreeze," which toured the UK in 2008,[10] "East Side Stories" at Kicken Berlin in 2010,[11] and "Restless Bodies" at Rencontres d'Arles in 2019.[12]

Schulze Eldowy's photographs belong to collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[13] the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,[14] LACMA Los Angeles,[15] FRAC Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux,[16] Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett,[17] Museum Folkwang, Essen,[18] Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden,[17] Sprengel Museum, Hannover,[19] Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin,[20] Teutloff Collection,[21] and Deutscher Bundestag.[22]

Literature

Photography books and catalogs

  • Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Ägyptische Tagebücher. Mit Texten von Harald Kunde, Thomas Schirmböck und Gundula Schulze Eldowy. Edition Stemmle, Kilchberg 1996, ISBN 978-3-908162-21-6
  • Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Das unfassbare Gesicht / El rostro inconebible. Galerie Pankow, Berlin 2010.[23]
  • Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Berlin in einer Hundenacht / Berlin on a Dog‘s Night. Fotografien / Photographs 1977–1900. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942473-15-6.
  • Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Am fortgewehten Ort. Berliner Geschichten. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942473-11-8 (Online)
  • Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Der große und der kleine Schritt / The big and the little step. Fotografien / Photographs 1982–1990. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942473-20-0.
  • Matthew Shaul and Nicola Freeman, Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall (Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2007)
  • Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Sonia Voss, Christiane Eisler, et al. The Freedom Within Us: East German Photography 1980-1989 (London: Koenig Books, 2019)

Scholarship

  • Alicja Piekarska, Die Fotografin Gundula Schulze Eldowy: Die Wirklichkeit der späten DDR-Jahre in Schwarz-Weiß, (Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2018)

Essays and reviews

  • Karin Schulze: Berlin ist hart zu seinen Bewohnern“ – Ausnahme-Fotografin Schulze Eldowy. In: Spiegel Online, 13. Dezember 2011 (Text)
  • Jérémy Piette: "Sous le manteau". In: Liberation, 1. November 2019 (Text)

Films

Schulze Eldowy has been featured in the following documentaries:

  • Gundula Schulze. Defa-Dokumentarfilmstudio, Berlin 1983, Regie: Helke Misselwitz.[24]
  • Les Siderantes. Christine Baudillon, Frankreich 2000.[25]
  • Just an Ordinary Life. The Photographers Sibylle Bergemann, Helga Paris, Gundula Schulze Eldowy. MDR und WDR, 2006, Regie: Pamela Meyer-Arndt.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b c M. Hamelin, Candice (2018). "The Diversification of East Germany's Visual Culture". The Ethics of Seeing : 20th Century German Photography. Evans, Jennifer V., Betts, Paul, Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig. New York: Berghahn. pp. 227–249. ISBN 978-1-78533-729-1. OCLC 1008758864.
  2. ^ a b c Medea Muckt Auf: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. 2019. pp. 138–139. ISBN 978-3-96098-527-3.
  3. ^ "In front of the lens of Gundula Schulze Eldowy". DDR Museum. 2014-04-03. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  4. ^ Gehann, Markus (2012-01-23). "Dem Mörder in uns begegnen". Vice (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  5. ^ a b c "Vita". www.das-unfassbare-gesicht.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Piekarska, Alicja (2018). Die Fotografin Gundula Schulze Eldowy : Die Wirklichkeit der späten DDR-Jahre in Schwarz-Weiß. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag. p. 273. ISBN 978-3-8288-6973-8. OCLC 1033823490.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  8. ^ "Gundula Schulze Eldowy". C/O Berlin. 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  9. ^ "Kicken Berlin | GUNDULA SCHULZE ELDOWY". www.kicken-gallery.com. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  10. ^ Moss, Stephen (2008-02-04). "Stephen Moss on Do Not Refreeze, an exhibition of photography from East Germany". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  11. ^ "Kicken Berlin | EAST SIDE STORIES". www.kicken-gallery.com. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  12. ^ d'Arles, Les Rencontres. "RESTLESS BODIES". www.rencontres-arles.com. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  13. ^ "Gundula Schulze-Eldowy | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  14. ^ "Gundula Schulze Eldowy · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  15. ^ "Gundula Schulze Eldowy | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  16. ^ "" Il est une fois dans l'Ouest "". Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  17. ^ a b "photo.dresden.de - Photographie in Dresden - Neuerwerbung für das Kupferstich-Kabinett". photo.dresden.de. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  18. ^ "Artists". Museum Folkwang. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  19. ^ "Photography and New Media - sprengel-museum.com". www.sprengel-museum.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  20. ^ "Deutsches Historisches Museum: 2009". www.dhm.de. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  21. ^ "The Teutloff Collection – The contemporary Family of Man". Steichen Collections CNA. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  22. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Fotografien von Gundula Schulze Eldowy". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  23. ^ "Vita". www.das-unfassbare-gesicht.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  24. ^ "Misselwitz, Helke | DEFA Film Library". ecommerce.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  25. ^ "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  26. ^ "Unbenanntes Dokument". www.ostfotografinnen.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
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