Otto Hagel
Otto Hagel | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 12, 1909 |
| Died | January 18, 1973 (aged 63) |
| Occupation | photographer |
| Spouse | Hansel Mieth |
Otto Hagel (1909–1973) was a German-born American photographer and filmmaker. He and his wife Hansel Mieth were part of the school of socially conscious documentary photo-journalists that included Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Peter Stackpole and Robert Capa. In the early 1930s, Hagel was a member of the San Francisco Film and Photo League.
Hagel's photographs of waterfront workers are the basis of two books published by the West Coast ILWU[clarification needed]: Men and Ships: A Pictorial of the Maritime Industry (1937); and Men and Machines: A Story About Longshoring on the West Coast Waterfront (1963).[citation needed]
Hagel and Mieth photographed the inside of the Heart Mountain Japanese American internment camp for Life magazine in 1943, but the photographs were not published by Life, In the 1950s, the couple was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.[citation needed]
Hagel and Meith bought a working ranch in Santa Rosa, California in 1941, and raised chickens for some years. A book with photographs from the period was published, as well as a pictorial in Life called "The Simple Life." During World War II, Hagel, still a German national, was under detention at home.[citation needed]
In 1955 Edward Steichen selected Hagel's high-angle flash-lit photograph, of social scientist Paul Schuster Taylor (husband of Dorothea Lange) conducting a seminar in labor economics,[1] for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man, seen by 9 million visitors.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Earl Warren Oral History Project, California Social Scientist. Volume I: Education, Field Research, and Family Paul Schuster Taylor Introduction by Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. Interviews Conducted by Suzanne B. Riessin 1970
- ^ Steichen, Edward (1955). Steichen, Edward; Mason, Jerry (eds.). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Museum of Modern Art – via Simon & Schuster and Maco Magazine Corporation.
External links
[edit]- “German photog couple should have been more famous” by Jonah Raskin. SFGate, June 25, 2015.
- "Otto Hagel Photography for Fortune Magazine". The Visual Telling of Stories. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- “Otto Hagel,” Labor Arts.
- “Otto Hagel,” Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
