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144 superb plates reproducing photographs in gravure by world famous photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch showing the Halligen landscape and people of the North Sea islands.
The Halligen are ten sparsely inhabited, low-lying North Sea islands off Germany’s northwest coast that consist mostly of sand dunes and the muddy coastal wetlands known as the Watt.
The interesting pictures are depicting houses of Langeness, tomb stones, religious wood carvings, lambs, hooge holm, milking the sheeps, Holm sheep, loading lambs onto the boat, sheeps in a boat, Peterheizwarf, plants, Ketelswarf, Holm cattles, Haymaking, silver and emproidery works, faces of Langeness, handmill, traditional dress or costume, kitchens, shrimp catching, birds, Maienswarf, Thamens-Warf, Norderhorn, arrow gras, shore and much more
Renger-Patzsch was a member of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity").
Photographs titled in English, German and French.
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