Masterfully challenges traditional academic street recording by converting candid snapshots into an authoritarian, multi-layered statement within the field of international black and white photography print collections. Venturing out from his small room on Boulevard St-Marcel every weekend, the photographer captured the inhabitants of the rue Mouffetard market on the fly, leaving behind rare images that serve as a rare testimony of a Paris that has now disappeared. The horizontal triptych arrangement tracks an intense, deeply meditative graphic rhythm where weathered faces, raw expressions, and historical street environments split the frame, successfully transforming a vintage personal diary into an undeniable architectural gravity for top-tier residential portfolios.
1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recently arrived from Cologne, lives in a small room on Boulevard St-Marcel. Every weekend, he goes to the market on rue Mouffetard to photograph the inhabitants on the fly. These rare images are the testimony of a Paris that has now disappeared and that of one of its emblematic districts.
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Black and White Photography Print - Rue Mouffetard - Triptych, 1964 by Uwe Ommer
Rue Mouffetard- Triptych, 1964
Archival Pigment Print
Limited Edition
Unframed
Printed later
Uwe Ommer (born 1943) in Bergisch Gladbach is a German photographer. 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 2002, Uwe Ommer was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society for the impact of his lifetime of work.
