Photography Collection

The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, presents photographs of Karin Székessy till 31 August. With approx. 250 works from the genres reportage, places and people, artist's portraits, children, dogs, still life, flowers and fruits, sceneries and nudes Karin Székessy gives an insight into her photographic works from five decades. The spectrum of the shown photographs encloses vintage prints just like prints made from digital photos since 2000. The one exact moment of seeing is decisive for her work. However, her photographs - whether the famous girl's pictures of the 1970s or later flowers and scenery motives - are very aesthetic.
Karin Székessy, born in 1939, studied photography in Munich from 1957 to 1959. From 1960 to 1966 she was working for the magazine "Kristall" predominantly with subjects like „German Sunday“ or „dangerous child's plays“. Beside portraits and taking photos of election campaigns of german politicians she always planned for also selfelective subjects which she offered successfully e.g. in 1966 a report about "Swinging London“. Her "doll photos" from 1959 are regarded as the precursors for the girl's act that started in 1963. An extensive unique oeuvre originated in the 1990s at first with friends, later with models. The intensive artistic collaboration with her husband Paul Wunderlich was an important epoch, they published the book "correspondences" at that time. She was a teacher at the art school of Hamburg from 1967 to 1969. After that she produced advertising photographs for clients in Japan, for Knoll International, an enterprise that creates workspace furnishings today as well as famous publishing companies and magazines like Brigitte or Architektur und Wohnen (Architecture and Living). For the Time magazine, Die Welt and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung Karin Székessy did reportages and essays. Her first book appeared in 1969 with Denoël in Paris. For many mystery stories in the Ullstein publishing company she created the cover picture. To date Karin Székessy works passionately on new subjects over and over again.