Uwe Ommer

Aventure d'une libertine I, Paris, 2015 From The Secret Album Series Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP. Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a personal experience. The mode...

Aventure d'une libertine II, Paris, 2015 From The Secret Album Series Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP. Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a personal experience. The mod...

Aventure d'une libertine III, Paris, 2015 From The Secret Album Series Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP. Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a personal experience. The mo...

A set of 3 Polaroids by Uwe Ommer Archival Pigment Print Frame size: 8.5 H x 12.5 W x 1 D in. Each Polaroid: 4 H x 3 W in. 1/1 Ex. Wood frame Black and white Photography Do it yourself Series In this series the artist wanted his models to stand on their own for once. Uwe Ommer put a trigger in the girls' hands. This series was produced for 7 years and resulted in a book of the same name. _______________________________ Uwe Ommer (born 1943 in Bergisch Gladbach is a German photographer...

Do it yourself by Uwe Ommer Black and white Photography Archival Pigment Print Image size: 45 H x 30 W cm. Edition of 7 + 6AP Unframed Do it yourself Series In this series the artist wanted his models to stand on their own for once. Uwe Ommer put a trigger in the girls' hands. This series was produced for 7 years and resulted in a book of the same name. Other sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that prices and availability may change due to current sales _______________________________ Uwe Ommer (born 1943 in Bergisch Gladbach is a German photographer...

Secret Album IV, Paris, 2015 Edition of 6 + 5 AP Medium size: 37 cm H x 30 cm W Large size: 60 cm H x 50 cm W Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the series was born, with a more erotic style than the others. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that prices and availability may change due to current sales. _______________________________ Born in Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany, Uwe Ommer became fascinated with photography at a young age. Initially sparked by his interest in photographing birds, he received his first camera at age 14 and began experimenting with his limited equipment. By the time Ommer was 18, he had given up on birds but was improving his skills as a photographer. He began working as an apprentice in a camera shop and soon picked up side projects for local papers, shooting everything from car accidents to weddings, when staff photographers were unavailable. In 1962, Ommer was awarded the first Deutscher Jugend Photo Preis (German Youth Photo Prize) at Photokina 1962 for his photograph of children playing soccer. The following year, he left for Paris (for only one year to learn French, he insisted) and began working as an assistant to advertising photographer Jean Pierre Ronzel. While Ommer did perfect his French, he never did leave Paris. In 1966 he opened his own photography studio, primarily shooting fashion and advertising photos for small women’s magazines. Quickly gaining respect for his work in Paris, Ommer began showing in local galleries and eventually published his first book. In 1995, Ommer drastically changed gears and decided to embark on a project unlike anything he had ever done before – a project, unlike anything anyone had ever done before. As a personal challenge, he set out the following year to document all types of families on every continent at the turn of the millennium. With a Landrover, Rolleiflex camera...

Secret Album V, Paris, 2015 Edition of 6 + 5 AP. Medium Size: 37 cm H x 30 cm W Large size: 60 cm H x 50 cm W Unframed The Secret Album Series This seri...

Secret Album II, Paris, 2015 Edition of 6 + 5 AP. Medium Size: 37 cm H x 30 cm W Large Size: 60 cm H x 50 cm W Unframed The Secret Album Series This ser...