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F. C. Gundlach

German art dealer, photographer, and curator (1926–2021)

F. C. Gundlach

F. C. Gundlach photographing for German magazine Film und Frau (Film and Woman) in Berlin 1955, model Grit Hübscher, stole by Staebe-Seger.

Born

Franz Christian Gundlach


(1926-07-16)16 July 1926

Heinebach, Alheim, Hesse, Germany

Died23 July 2021(2021-07-23) (aged 95)

Hamburg, Germany

Alma materPrivate Lehranstalt für Moderne Lichtbildkunst (Private Academy for Modern Photography), Kassel
Known forFashion photography

Franz Christian Gundlach (16 July 1926 – 23 July 2021) was a German photographer, gallery owner, collector, curator and founder.

In 2000 Gundlach created the F.C. Gundlach Foundation,[1] and since 2003 he has been founding director of the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen,[2] in Hamburg.

Gundlach's fashion photographs of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, often integrating social phenomena and visual arts trends, are now found in museums and collections. Since 1975 he has curated many photographic e

F.C. Gundlach

F.C. Gundlach ROMY SCHNEIDER €5.760 F.C. Gundlach THE WHOLE DAY AT THE BEACH. KARIN MOSBERG, GIZA, EGYPT €4.560 F.C. Gundlach GITTA SCHILLING IN EINEM ABENDKLEID VON ULI RICHTER €4.200 F.C. Gundlach Jump Suit aus Nerz, Mirella Petteni, Oslo €4.000 F.C. Gundlach Op-Art Fashion, Brigitte Bauer, Modell Sinz, Vouliagmeni - Athen €4.000 F.C. Gundlach Astrid Schiller, Coiffure Alexandre I, Paris €3.780

Biography

Franz Christian Gundlach, better known as F.C. Gundlach, (* 16 July 1926 in Heinebach, † 23 July 2021 in Hamburg) was a German photographer, gallery owner, collector, university lecturer, curator and benefactor. In September 2003, he was appointed founding director of the House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

His fashion photographs of the fifties, sixties and seventies, which repeatedly dealt with social phenomena and current trends in the visual arts, have in many cases become icons, left behind their context of origin and found their way into museums and collections.

As a fashion photographer who uses the recording medium for his productions, the photographer must live, think and feel in his time. Fashion photographs are always interpretations and stagings. They reflect and visualize the zeitgeist of the present and anticipate the spirit of tomorrow. They offer projection screens for identification, but also for dreams, wishes and desires. And yet fashion photographs often say more about a time than documentary photographs pretending to have depicted

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