| Dates: | 1894, 21 August - 1982, 25 February | | Born: | Germany, Upper Bavaria, Miesbach | | Active: | Germany |
German photographer, collagist and painter.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
While recognized as a painter and proponent of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) whose cold realist portraits reveal the hedonism and apathy in Weimar Germany, he is also acclaimed as the 20th century’s earliest practitioner of experimental camera-less photography in the tradition of Talbot’s "photogenic drawing." Using torn tickets, receipts, and other "trash," he created chance arrangements on photographic film called "Schadographs," so named by the Dada artist and leader Tristan Tzara. In the iconoclastic aura of experimentation that European Dada and Surrealism engendered, artists such as Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray independently discovered the creative capabilities of the photogram, but Schad’s experiments preceded theirs by several years and exemplified the Dada ethos of making art from junk.
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
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