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'''Evelyn Richter''' (31 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a German [[art photographer]] known primarily for [[social documentary photography]] work in [[East Germany]].<ref>Albertl, Sarah: [http://kreuzer-leipzig.de/2011/11/08/rein-in-die-dunkelkammer/ Rein in die Dunkelkammer! / Gemeinsam im Gespräch: Die Fotografinnen Barbara Klemm und Evelyn Richter] ''Kreuzer-Leipzig'' 2011]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2008/feb/04/photography|title=Do Not Refreeze, Focal Point Gallery, Southend|date=4 February 2008|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=5 March 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Rieckmann|first1=Adina|url=https://www.zeit.de/2010/49/S-Herrenhaeuser|title=Fotografie: Schloss-Akkord|date=2 December 2010|newspaper=Die Zeit|access-date=5 March 2019|location=Hamburg|issn=0044-2070}}</ref> She is notable for her [[black & white photography]] where she documented working class life, and which often showed influences of [[Dada]]ism and [[futurism]].<ref name="worldcat.org">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1099843511|title=Medea muckt auf : Radikale Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang = The Medea insurrection : radical women artists behind the Iron Curtain|others=Altmann, Susanne, Lozo, Katarina, Wagner, Hilke, 1972-, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Wende Museum (Culver City, Calif.).|year = 2019|isbn=978-3-96098-527-3|location=Köln|oclc=1099843511}}</ref> Her photography is focused on people in everyday life, including children, workers (especially women), artists and musicians.
'''Evelyn Richter''' (31 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a German [[art photographer]] known primarily for [[social documentary photography]] work in [[East Germany]].<ref name="kreuzer online 2011">{{cite web | title=Rein in die Dunkelkammer! | website=kreuzer online | date=8 November 2011 | url=https://kreuzer-leipzig.de/2011/11/08/rein-in-die-dunkelkammer | language=de | access-date=6 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2008/feb/04/photography|title=Do Not Refreeze, Focal Point Gallery, Southend|date=4 February 2008|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=5 March 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Rieckmann|first1=Adina|url=https://www.zeit.de/2010/49/S-Herrenhaeuser|title=Fotografie: Schloss-Akkord|date=2 December 2010|newspaper=Die Zeit|access-date=5 March 2019|location=Hamburg|issn=0044-2070}}</ref> She is notable for her [[black & white photography]] in which she documented working-class life, and which often showed influences of [[Dada]]ism and [[futurism]].<ref name="worldcat.org">{{Cite book |title=Medea muckt auf : Radikale Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang The Medea insurrection: radical women artists behind the Iron Curtain|editor1=Altmann, Susanne |editor2=Lozo, Katarina |editor3=Wagner, Hilke |editor4=Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden |publisher=Walther König|year = 2019|isbn=978-3-96098-527-3|location=Köln|oclc=1099843511}}</ref> Her photography is focused on people in everyday life, including children, workers (especially women), artists and musicians.


She taught photography both at the [[Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig]], where she had studied, from 1981, as in the 1990s, at the Fachhochschule in [[Bielefeld]]. Her work became known internationally only after German reunification.
She taught photography both at the [[Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig]], where she had studied, from 1981, as in the 1990s, at the Fachhochschule in [[Bielefeld]]. Her work became known internationally only after German reunification.
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After completing a photographic apprenticeship in [[Dresden]]<ref name="dw"/> with [[Franz Fiedler]] and Pan Walther from 1948 to 1951, Richter worked as a laboratory assistant at the Vereinigte Kaufstätten Dresden and as a photographer at the [[Technische Universität Dresden|TU Dresden]].<ref name="SADK" /> In 1953, she enrolled at the [[Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig]] (HGB)<ref name="dw"/> to study Fotografik (graphic photography) with Johannes Widmann, professor of the Institute of Photography. She also studied book design, working with Walter Schiller and {{ill|Horst Schuster|de}}.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" /> In 1955, she was removed as a student for her "independent interests and pictorial ideas which are foreign to the demands of a realistic socialist art."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stoschek|first=Jeannette|title=Evelyn Richter: Rückblick, Konzepte, Fragmente|publisher=Bielefeld|year=2005|isbn=|location=|pages=14–27}}</ref>
After completing a photographic apprenticeship in [[Dresden]]<ref name="dw"/> with [[Franz Fiedler]] and Pan Walther from 1948 to 1951, Richter worked as a laboratory assistant at the Vereinigte Kaufstätten Dresden and as a photographer at the [[Technische Universität Dresden|TU Dresden]].<ref name="SADK" /> In 1953, she enrolled at the [[Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig]] (HGB)<ref name="dw"/> to study Fotografik (graphic photography) with Johannes Widmann, professor of the Institute of Photography. She also studied book design, working with Walter Schiller and {{ill|Horst Schuster|de}}.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" /> In 1955, she was removed as a student for her "independent interests and pictorial ideas which are foreign to the demands of a realistic socialist art."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stoschek|first=Jeannette|title=Evelyn Richter: Rückblick, Konzepte, Fragmente|publisher=Bielefeld|year=2005|isbn=|location=|pages=14–27}}</ref>


Richter worked as a freelance photographer,<ref name="SADK" /> working for such clients as the Leipzig Trade Fair and Sibylle magazine, while simultaneously building a body of work documenting life, work, and societal change in East Germany. Her photographs frequently explored the relationship between industrial machinery and the human (often female) operators.<ref name="worldcat.org"/> Her focus was portraits of people in everyday situations, such as children, artists, poets and musicians, and she waited patiently for the right moment. She followed the violinist [[David Oistrach]], travelling to concerts and rehearsal, and made a photo book about him.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" />
Richter worked as a freelance photographer,<ref name="SADK" /> working for such clients as the Leipzig Trade Fair and Sibylle magazine, while simultaneously building a body of work documenting life, work, and societal change in East Germany. Her photographs frequently explored the relationship between industrial machinery and the human (often female) operators.<ref name="worldcat.org"/> Her focus was portraits of people in everyday situations, such as children, artists, poets and musicians, and she waited patiently for the right moment. She followed the violinist [[David Oistrach]], travelling to concerts and rehearsals, and made a photo book about him.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" />


Richter taught photography at the HGB from 1981, as an honorary professor from 1991 to 2002.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" /> In the 1990s, she also taught at the Fachhochschule in Bielefeld.<ref name="SADK" /><ref name=Sächsische />
Richter taught photography at the HGB from 1981, as an honorary professor from 1991 to 2002.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" /> In the 1990s, she also taught at the Fachhochschule in Bielefeld.<ref name="SADK" /><ref name=Sächsische />


The Evelyn Richter Archive, with over 730 of her photographs, has been housed at the [[Museum der bildenden Künste]] (Museum of Fine Arts) in Leipzig since 2009.<ref name="dw"/><ref name="Sächsische" /><ref>[https://stiftungsarchive.de/archive/1223 Evelyn Richter Archiv der Ostdeutschen Sparkassenstiftung im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig 2021] (in German) stiftungsarchive.de</ref> An exhibition of her works was held in 2010 on the occasion of her 80th birthday at the Leonhardimuseum Dresden.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" /> In 2016, her photographies were exhibited in a group show, ''Gehaltene Zeit'', together with works by [[Ursula Arnold]] and [[Arno Fischer]], at the [[Museum der bildenden Künste]], Leipzig.<ref name="MDBK">[]https://mdbk.de/ausstellungen/ursula-arnold-arno-fischer-evelyn-richter/ Ursula Arnold, Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter / Gehaltene Zeit] (in German) mdbk.de 2016</ref> In 2020, she was the first recipient of the Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preis of [[Düsseldorf]] for her life's work.<ref name="Sächsische" /><ref name="Düsseldorf">[https://www.duesseldorf.de/medienportal/pressedienst-einzelansicht/pld/erste-vergabe-des-bernd-und-hilla-becher-preises-der-landeshauptstadt-duesseldorf.html Erste Vergabe des Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preises der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf] (in German) [[Düsseldorf]] 2020</ref> The jury noted: {{quote|In her work, she [Evelyn Richter] explores the field of documentary in a new way: Inspired by the new international social photography, Richter focuses on people and their living environments unembellished and with empathy. As a visual chronicler, she focuses on East German working and everyday worlds, moves through public space with her camera and repeatedly captures intimate moments. The photographer, who has constantly expanded her photographic radius, especially after 1990, never succumbs to the temptation to reduce the world to unambiguity. Rather, she provides access to its complexity and enables viewers to get close to things. In her openness and unapproachability lies the great topicality of Evelyn Richter's photographic attitude.{{efn|In ihrem Werk lotet sie [Evelyn Richter] das Feld des Dokumentarischen neu aus: Inspiriert von der neuen internationalen Sozialfotografie fokussiert Richter den Menschen und seine Lebenswelten so ungeschönt wie empathisch. Als visuelle Chronistin richtet sie den Blick auf ostdeutsche Arbeits- und Alltagswelten, bewegt sich mit ihrer Kamera durch den öffentlichen Raum und trotzt diesem immer wieder bestechend intime Momente ab. Dabei erliegt die Fotografin, die insbesondere nach 1990 auf vielen Reisen stetig ihren fotografischen Radius erweitert, nie der Versuchung, die Welt auf Eindeutigkeiten herunterzubrechen. Vielmehr legt sie Zugänge zu deren Komplexität und ermöglicht es Betrachterinnen und Betrachtern, den Dingen nahe zu kommen. In ihrer Offenheit und Unvereinnahmbarkeit liegt die große Aktualität von Evelyn Richters fotografischer Haltung."}}<ref name="Düsseldorf" />}}
The Evelyn Richter Archive, with over 730 of her photographs, has been housed at the [[Museum der bildenden Künste]] (Museum of Fine Arts) in Leipzig since 2009.<ref name="dw"/><ref name="Sächsische" /><ref>[https://stiftungsarchive.de/archive/1223 Evelyn Richter Archiv der Ostdeutschen Sparkassenstiftung im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig 2021] (in German) stiftungsarchive.de</ref> An exhibition of her works was held in 2010 on the occasion of her 80th birthday at the Leonhardimuseum Dresden.<ref name="Sächsische portrait" /> In 2016, her photographies were exhibited in a group show, ''Gehaltene Zeit'', together with works by [[Ursula Arnold]] and [[Arno Fischer]], at the [[Museum der bildenden Künste]], Leipzig.<ref name="MDBK">{{cite web | title=Ursula Arnold, Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter | website=Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig | url=https://mdbk.de/ausstellungen/ursula-arnold-arno-fischer-evelyn-richter/ | language=de | access-date=6 June 2022 | archive-date=20 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020072119/https://mdbk.de/ausstellungen/ursula-arnold-arno-fischer-evelyn-richter/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2020, she was the first recipient of the Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preis of [[Düsseldorf]] for her life's work.<ref name="Sächsische" /><ref name="Düsseldorf">[https://www.duesseldorf.de/medienportal/pressedienst-einzelansicht/pld/erste-vergabe-des-bernd-und-hilla-becher-preises-der-landeshauptstadt-duesseldorf.html Erste Vergabe des Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preises der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf] (in German) [[Düsseldorf]] 2020</ref> The jury noted: {{blockquote|In her work, she [Evelyn Richter] explores the field of documentary in a new way: Inspired by the new international social photography, Richter focuses on people and their living environments unembellished and with empathy. As a visual chronicler, she focuses on East German working and everyday worlds, moves through public space with her camera and repeatedly captures intimate moments. The photographer, who has constantly expanded her photographic radius, especially after 1990, never succumbs to the temptation to reduce the world to unambiguity. Rather, she provides access to its complexity and enables viewers to get close to things. In her openness and unapproachability lies the great topicality of Evelyn Richter's photographic attitude.{{efn|In ihrem Werk lotet sie [Evelyn Richter] das Feld des Dokumentarischen neu aus: Inspiriert von der neuen internationalen Sozialfotografie fokussiert Richter den Menschen und seine Lebenswelten so ungeschönt wie empathisch. Als visuelle Chronistin richtet sie den Blick auf ostdeutsche Arbeits- und Alltagswelten, bewegt sich mit ihrer Kamera durch den öffentlichen Raum und trotzt diesem immer wieder bestechend intime Momente ab. Dabei erliegt die Fotografin, die insbesondere nach 1990 auf vielen Reisen stetig ihren fotografischen Radius erweitert, nie der Versuchung, die Welt auf Eindeutigkeiten herunterzubrechen. Vielmehr legt sie Zugänge zu deren Komplexität und ermöglicht es Betrachterinnen und Betrachtern, den Dingen nahe zu kommen. In ihrer Offenheit und Unvereinnahmbarkeit liegt die große Aktualität von Evelyn Richters fotografischer Haltung.}}<ref name="Düsseldorf" />}}


Richter died in Dresden at age 91<ref>Koch, Katrin: [https://www.tag24.de/dresden/kultur-leute/streitbar-und-preisgekroent-fotografin-evelyn-richter-ist-tot-2157442 Streitbar und preisgekrönt: Fotografin Evelyn Richter ist tot] (in German) tag24.de 11 October 2021</ref> in a nursing home where she lived for eight years after a stroke.<ref name="Sächsische portrait">[https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/kultur/sie-zeigte-das-leben-der-menschen-in-der-ddr-5543409.html Sie zeigte das Leben der Menschen in der DDR] (in German) ''Sächsische Zeitung'' 11 October 2021</ref><ref name="Sächsische">[https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/kultur/fotografin-evelyn-richter-gestorben-5543103-plus.html Fotografin Evelyn Richter gestorben] (in German) ''Sächsische Zeitung'' 11 October 2021</ref>
Richter died in Dresden at age 91<ref>Koch, Katrin: [https://www.tag24.de/dresden/kultur-leute/streitbar-und-preisgekroent-fotografin-evelyn-richter-ist-tot-2157442 Streitbar und preisgekrönt: Fotografin Evelyn Richter ist tot] (in German) tag24.de 11 October 2021</ref> in a nursing home where she had lived for eight years after a stroke.<ref name="Sächsische portrait">[https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/kultur/sie-zeigte-das-leben-der-menschen-in-der-ddr-5543409.html Sie zeigte das Leben der Menschen in der DDR] (in German) ''Sächsische Zeitung'' 11 October 2021</ref><ref name="Sächsische">[https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/kultur/fotografin-evelyn-richter-gestorben-5543103-plus.html Fotografin Evelyn Richter gestorben] (in German) ''Sächsische Zeitung'' 11 October 2021</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
===Publications by Richter===
===Publications by Richter===
*''Arrested Time'' = ''Stillgehaltene Zeit.'' Heidelberg: Braus, 2002. Edited by Astrid Ihle. {{ISBN|9783899040517}}. With a text by Matthias Flg̈ge. In German and English. Catalogue published "on the occasion of the Evelyn Richter exhibition in the Goethe Institute in Washington DC, from November 6, 2002 until January 10, 2003, and in the Leica Gallery in New York City from January 30, 2003 to March 1, 2003".<ref>{{cite book|first1=Evelyn|last1=Richter|first2=Astrid|last2=Ihle|first3=Manfred|last3=Flg̈ge|last4=Goethe-Institut Washington|title=Evelyn Richter: arrested time|publisher=Edition Braus|location=Heidelberg|isbn=9783899040517|last5=Leica-Galerie|oclc=52271150|year=2003}}</ref>
* ''Arrested Time'' = ''Stillgehaltene Zeit''. Heidelberg: Braus, 2002. Edited by Astrid Ihle. {{ISBN|978-3-89904-051-7}}. With a text by Matthias Flg̈ge. In German and English. Catalogue published "on the occasion of the Evelyn Richter exhibition in the Goethe Institute in Washington DC, from November 6, 2002 until January 10, 2003, and in the Leica Gallery in New York City from January 30, 2003 to March 1, 2003".<ref>{{cite book|first1=Evelyn|last1=Richter|first2=Astrid|last2=Ihle|first3=Manfred|last3=Flg̈ge|last4=Goethe-Institut Washington|title=Evelyn Richter: arrested time|publisher=Edition Braus|location=Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-89904-051-7|last5=Leica-Galerie|oclc=52271150|year=2003}}</ref>


===Publications with contributions by Richter===
===Publications with contributions by Richter===
*''Wer War Wer in der DDR?.'' Berlin: Links, 2010. By Helmut Müller-Enbergs. {{ISBN|978-3-86153-561-4}}.
* ''Wer War Wer in der DDR?'' Berlin: Links, 2010. By Helmut Müller-Enbergs. {{ISBN|978-3-86153-561-4}}.


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
* 1975: ''Ehrenpreis für Fotografie des Kulturbundes der DDR''<ref name="SADK" />
* 1975: ''Ehrenpreis für Fotografie des Kulturbundes der DDR''<ref name="SADK" />
* 1978: ''Ehrenpreis'' of then [[photokina]] in Cologne<ref name="SADK" />
* 1978: ''Ehrenpreis'' of then [[photokina]] in Cologne<ref name="SADK" />
* 1992: ''Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie'' of the German Photographic Society<ref name="SADK" /><ref>https://www.dgph.de/auszeichnungen/kulturpreis/preistraeger/evelyn-richter Evelyn Richter] German Photographic Society 2021</ref>
* 1992: ''Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie'' of the German Photographic Society<ref name="SADK" /><ref name="Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V.">{{cite web | title=Evelyn Richter | website=Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V. | url=https://www.dgph.de/auszeichnungen/kulturpreis/preistraeger/evelyn-richter | language=de | access-date=6 June 2022}}</ref>
* 1997: [[Villa Massimo]]<ref name="SADK" />
* 1997: [[Villa Massimo]]<ref name="SADK" />
* 1992: Culture Award, [[German Society for Photography]], Cologne<ref name="dw">{{cite web|date=16 October 2012|access-date=5 March 2019|title=Behind the scenes in the GDR|url=https://www.dw.com/en/behind-the-scenes-in-the-gdr/a-16297797-0|website=Deutsche Welle}}</ref>
* 1992: Culture Award, [[German Society for Photography]], Cologne<ref name="dw">{{cite web|date=16 October 2012|access-date=5 March 2019|title=Behind the scenes in the GDR|url=https://www.dw.com/en/behind-the-scenes-in-the-gdr/a-16297797-0|website=Deutsche Welle}}</ref>
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* 2016: ''Die Lehre. Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter'', Art gallery of [[Sparkasse Leipzig]]. Common catalog.<ref>''Kunst kommt nicht von Künstlichkeit'' in [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|FAZ]] from 1 August 2016, page 15</ref>
* 2016: ''Die Lehre. Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter'', Art gallery of [[Sparkasse Leipzig]]. Common catalog.<ref>''Kunst kommt nicht von Künstlichkeit'' in [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|FAZ]] from 1 August 2016, page 15</ref>


== Notes ==
== Explanatory notes ==
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Latest revision as of 17:20, 20 April 2024

Evelyn Richter
Born(1930-01-31)31 January 1930
Bautzen, Germany
Died10 October 2021(2021-10-10) (aged 91)
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
BildungHochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Occupations
  • Art photographer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations
  • Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
  • Fachhochschule in Bielefeld
Awards

Evelyn Richter (31 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a German art photographer known primarily for social documentary photography work in East Germany.[1][2][3] She is notable for her black & white photography in which she documented working-class life, and which often showed influences of Dadaism and futurism.[4] Her photography is focused on people in everyday life, including children, workers (especially women), artists and musicians.

She taught photography both at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, where she had studied, from 1981, as in the 1990s, at the Fachhochschule in Bielefeld. Her work became known internationally only after German reunification.

She received awards such as the Culture Award from the German Society for Photography, the Art Prize of Dresden, and the Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preis for her life's work.

Life and work

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Richter was born in Bautzen[5] in 1930.[6]

After completing a photographic apprenticeship in Dresden[5] with Franz Fiedler and Pan Walther from 1948 to 1951, Richter worked as a laboratory assistant at the Vereinigte Kaufstätten Dresden and as a photographer at the TU Dresden.[6] In 1953, she enrolled at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB)[5] to study Fotografik (graphic photography) with Johannes Widmann, professor of the Institute of Photography. She also studied book design, working with Walter Schiller and Horst Schuster [de].[7] In 1955, she was removed as a student for her "independent interests and pictorial ideas which are foreign to the demands of a realistic socialist art."[8]

Richter worked as a freelance photographer,[6] working for such clients as the Leipzig Trade Fair and Sibylle magazine, while simultaneously building a body of work documenting life, work, and societal change in East Germany. Her photographs frequently explored the relationship between industrial machinery and the human (often female) operators.[4] Her focus was portraits of people in everyday situations, such as children, artists, poets and musicians, and she waited patiently for the right moment. She followed the violinist David Oistrach, travelling to concerts and rehearsals, and made a photo book about him.[7]

Richter taught photography at the HGB from 1981, as an honorary professor from 1991 to 2002.[7] In the 1990s, she also taught at the Fachhochschule in Bielefeld.[6][9]

The Evelyn Richter Archive, with over 730 of her photographs, has been housed at the Museum der bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts) in Leipzig since 2009.[5][9][10] An exhibition of her works was held in 2010 on the occasion of her 80th birthday at the Leonhardimuseum Dresden.[7] In 2016, her photographies were exhibited in a group show, Gehaltene Zeit, together with works by Ursula Arnold and Arno Fischer, at the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.[11] In 2020, she was the first recipient of the Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preis of Düsseldorf for her life's work.[9][12] The jury noted:

In her work, she [Evelyn Richter] explores the field of documentary in a new way: Inspired by the new international social photography, Richter focuses on people and their living environments unembellished and with empathy. As a visual chronicler, she focuses on East German working and everyday worlds, moves through public space with her camera and repeatedly captures intimate moments. The photographer, who has constantly expanded her photographic radius, especially after 1990, never succumbs to the temptation to reduce the world to unambiguity. Rather, she provides access to its complexity and enables viewers to get close to things. In her openness and unapproachability lies the great topicality of Evelyn Richter's photographic attitude.[a][12]

Richter died in Dresden at age 91[13] in a nursing home where she had lived for eight years after a stroke.[7][9]

Publications

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Publications by Richter

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  • Arrested Time = Stillgehaltene Zeit. Heidelberg: Braus, 2002. Edited by Astrid Ihle. ISBN 978-3-89904-051-7. With a text by Matthias Flg̈ge. In German and English. Catalogue published "on the occasion of the Evelyn Richter exhibition in the Goethe Institute in Washington DC, from November 6, 2002 until January 10, 2003, and in the Leica Gallery in New York City from January 30, 2003 to March 1, 2003".[14]

Publications with contributions by Richter

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Awards

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  • 1975: Ehrenpreis für Fotografie des Kulturbundes der DDR[6]
  • 1978: Ehrenpreis of then photokina in Cologne[6]
  • 1992: Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie of the German Photographic Society[6][15]
  • 1997: Villa Massimo[6]
  • 1992: Culture Award, German Society for Photography, Cologne[5]
  • 2006: Kunstpreis der Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Art prize of the state capital of Dresden)[5][6]
  • 2020: Bernd und Hilla Becher-Preis[6][12]

Exhibitions

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Solo exhibitions

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Group exhibitions

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Explanatory notes

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  1. ^ In ihrem Werk lotet sie [Evelyn Richter] das Feld des Dokumentarischen neu aus: Inspiriert von der neuen internationalen Sozialfotografie fokussiert Richter den Menschen und seine Lebenswelten so ungeschönt wie empathisch. Als visuelle Chronistin richtet sie den Blick auf ostdeutsche Arbeits- und Alltagswelten, bewegt sich mit ihrer Kamera durch den öffentlichen Raum und trotzt diesem immer wieder bestechend intime Momente ab. Dabei erliegt die Fotografin, die insbesondere nach 1990 auf vielen Reisen stetig ihren fotografischen Radius erweitert, nie der Versuchung, die Welt auf Eindeutigkeiten herunterzubrechen. Vielmehr legt sie Zugänge zu deren Komplexität und ermöglicht es Betrachterinnen und Betrachtern, den Dingen nahe zu kommen. In ihrer Offenheit und Unvereinnahmbarkeit liegt die große Aktualität von Evelyn Richters fotografischer Haltung.

References

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  8. ^ Stoschek, Jeannette (2005). Evelyn Richter: Rückblick, Konzepte, Fragmente. Bielefeld. pp. 14–27.
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