ULRICH MACK Island People

03. March 2013 to 02. June 2013

The German photographer Ulrich Mack (b. 1934) is an internationally renowned photo journalist who contributed to the German magazines Quick, twen and Stern in the 1960s and 1970s. Ulrich Mack’s works have been exhibited in numerous museums and are included in national and international collections. Essential subjects of his photographic oeuvre are people and landscapes. Mack made a name for himself with, among others, various photo series of the industrial landscapes of the Ruhr district, Northern German landscapes, numerous artist portraits, as well as a unique comparative series of photographs of islanders on the German North Sea island of Pellworm and on Harkers Island off the east coast of the United States.

Inspired by August Sander’s major photo series People of the 20th Century, Ulrich Mack set out in the period from 1978 to 1981 to capture the people of Pellworm as individuals in their living environment in straightforward, unemotional black and white photographs. In 1984-85 he then did another photo series about islanders on Harkers Island off the coast of North Carolina. In 1995, he combined the two island series into a two-volume study titled Inselmenschen/Island People. This comparative ethnographic investigation reveals striking parallels between the ways of life and experiences of island societies on either side of the Atlantic.

Ulrich Mack
Hebamme und Gemeindeschwester
Ulrich Mack
Hebamme und Gemeindeschwester
Ulrich Mack
Fischer und Sohn
Ulrich Mack
Fischer und Sohn
Ulrich Mack
Friends
Ulrich Mack
Friends
Ulrich Mack
Kaufmannspaar
Ulrich Mack
Kaufmannspaar