Juergen Nogai Explained

Juergen Nogai
Birth Date:2 July 1953
Birth Place:Jessen/Elster, East Germany
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:University of Cologne
Occupation:Photographer

Juergen Nogai (born 2 July 1953 in Jessen/Elster, south of Berlin) is a German architecture, art and documentary photographer.

Biography

Early life

Juergen Nogai began his studies as a Fine Arts major with parallel studies in Film, Theatre and Television Science, and German Language at the University of Cologne, West Germany. He then went to the University of Osnabrueck, West Germany and earned a teaching degree in German Language and Fine Arts, which he taught concurrently with his career as a free-lance photographer. He maintained his studio in Bremen, Germany, where he worked for museums, architects, publishers, companies, design and advertising agencies.

Career

In 2000 he re-located to Los Angeles and began working on numerous book projects for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York and Taschen, Cologne, Germany. It was during this period that Juergen began his decade long collaboration with architectural photographer Julius Shulman. They have had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions of their work and Juergen is represented by Craig Krull Gallery, in Los Angeles.[1]

J. Shulman, his friend and creative photography partner, died July 15, 2009, and Juergen Nogai retains the copyrights to the archive created during their decade long collaboration.

His work is part of the permanent collections of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Palm Springs Art Museum[2] and DAM, The Frankfurt Design and Architecture Museum, Orange County Museum, Ca., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. He lectures around the country and teaches workshops on Architectural Photography at the Palm Springs Photo Festival [3] each spring.

Selected bibliography

His work has been included extensively in publications some of which include:

"Richard Neutra", “John Lautner”, “Rudolf Schindler”, “Pierre Koenig” - TASCHEN Edition

Exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Julius Shulman & Juergen Nogai at Craig Krull Gallery. www.craigkrullgallery.com.
  2. Web site: Home. www.psmuseum.org.
  3. Web site: Connect 2019: The Palm Springs Photo Festival - Education * Inspiration * Technology.