Dr. Paul Wolff: Between Light and Shadows

The best-known German photographer of the interwar period, Paul Wolff is nevertheless a forgotten figure in the history of photography. How can one explain the astonishing disappearance of such a witness to a Germany that was undergoing both renewal and the darkest hours of its history? The first retrospective devoted to his work in France lifts part of the mystery of Paul Wolff, between light and shadow.

Who was this mysterious Dr. Paul Wolff (1887-1951)? While his contemporaries Auguste Sander and Albert Renger-Patzsch have passed into posterity, his name seems to have evaporated into the depths of photographic history. And yet, in the interwar peri...

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