Horacio Coppola

Horacio Coppola who has died aged 105, worked primarily in black and white, and his photography – keenly evoking sensations of time and place – has the scent of nostalgia. With his camera, he expressed his love of the city, its architecture and its people.

Homage to Juan Gris

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    Horacio Coppola – MoMa collection

    Horacio Coppola ((31 July 1906 – 18 June 2012)

    Argentine photographer and filmmaker, and the husband of the German photographer Grete Stern.
    Born in Buenos Aires, he was the author of the photographs that appeared in the first edition of “Evaristo Carriego” (biography) (1930)[3] by Jorge Luis Borges. He was one of the pioneers photographers from Argentina and key figure in the Modernism. He studied in the Bauhaus during the thirties and came back to Argentina with his German wife. He remarried later to Raquel Palomeque.

    In a clip from “Ringl and Pit” the great Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola talks about his relationship with Grete Stern (later briefly his wife) and Ellen Auerbach, who had started the “ringl + pit” photo studio in Berlin in 1929. They all worked together in a fun little film where Coppola tries to pick up a maid, played by Grete.

  • Click through his photos here