Rudolf Holtappel
Pictorial Ethnography
1959–1971
The photographs of Rudolf Holtappel were marked by a journalistic ethnographic interest in the surrounding world of the Ruhr. “Questions of style and composition” were secondary. This is reversed, in specific ways, in the pictures of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joachim Brohm and Jitka Hanzlová. Compared to the “what”, the “how” comes to the fore.















51°30'00.0"N 7°30'00.0"E
Location: Ruhr Area, Germany
Posted: September 2019
Category: Photography
Location: Ruhr Area, Germany
Collection: LVR-Industriemuseum
Posted: September 2019
Category: Photography