Artist Index: Mangold, Guido

Landschaft im Revier. 1961. Vintage, large-format, ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 50 x 60 cm. Mounted to board and matted, signed, titled and dated by the photographer in ballpoint pen on mount verso.

In 1957, Guido Mangold began studying photojournalism with Otto Steinert at the School of Arts and Crafts (Saarbrücken). In 1958 he transferred with Otto Steinert to the Folkwang School in Essen, where he graduated in 1960 with a degree and the Folkwang Achievement Award. From 1961 onwards, he worked as a photographer for the United States Information Service (USIS) in Bad Godesberg. In 1962, he left the USIS to travel to Southeast Asia for several weeks on behalf of the aid organization Misereor, where he documented the local culture. Mangold received a contract with the magazine Quick in 1963, for which he traveled worldwide as a photojournalist. As of 1966 he worked as a freelancer for German magazines such as twen, Eltern, Playboy, Jasmin, Stern. – A few surface scuff marks, some retouched spots, some light spots in sky area, otherwise in very good condition.