Jakob Tuggener: Ball Nights, 1934-62

Jakob Tuggener: Ball Nights, 1934-62 at Laurence Miller Gallery. "...Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988) was born in Zurich, and began taking photographs in 1926. In 1934 he began a thirty-year project of photographing society and opera balls in Zurich, St. Moritz and Vienna. Unlike other photographers who recorded the balls in a journalistic manner, Tuggener took very personal photographs that reflected his adoration of the elegant women and fascination for nocturnal society life.He wrote: '...it was a fairy tale of feminine beauty and flowing silky radiance.'
Tuggener insisted on a subjective, poetic approach, which he powerfully presented in book maquettes, of which eight completed ball maquettes were found in his estate. Each was assembled from many different ball nights, but poetically arranged into a continuous picture-sequence without text, simulating a single evening at a ball." Also... more Photographs by Jakob Tuggener at Fotostiftung Schweiz - Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie. (ch)