Otto Hagel
Born1909
Fellbach, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died1973
California, United States
Occupationphotographer
SpouseHansel Mieth

Otto Hagel (1909–1973) was a German-born American photographer and filmmaker. He and his wife Hansel Mieth were part of the school of socially conscious documentary photo-journalists that included Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Peter Stackpole and Robert Capa. In the early 1930s, Hagel was a member of the San Francisco Film and Photo League.

Hagel's photographs of waterfront workers are the basis of two books published by the West Coast ILWU: Men and Ships: A Pictorial of the Maritime Industry (1937); and Men and Machines: A Story About Longshoring on the West Coast Waterfront (1963).

Hagel and Mieth photographed the inside of the Heart Mountain Japanese American internment camp for Life magazine in 1943, but the photographs were not published by Life, In the 1950s, the couple was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Hagel and Meith bought a working ranch in Santa Rosa, California in 1941, and raised chickens for some years. A book with photographs from the period was published, as well as a pictorial in Life called "The Simple Life." During World War II, Hagel, still a German national, was under detention at home.

In 1955 Edward Steichen selected Hagel's high-angle flash-lit photograph, of social scientist Paul Schuster Taylor (husband of Dorothea Lange) conducting a seminar in labor economics,[1] for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man, seen by 9 million visitors.[2]

Bibliography

  • "Otto Hagel Photography for Fortune Magazine". The Visual Telling of Stories. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  • "Otto Hagel". Labor Arts. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  • "Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel Photographs". Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona Libraries. Retrieved December 7, 2012.

References

  1. ↑ Earl Warren Oral History Project, California Social Scientist. Volume I: Education, Field Research, and Family Paul Schuster Taylor With an Introduction by Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. Interviews Conducted by Suzanne B. Riessin 1970 http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft5q2nb29x&brand=oac&doc.view=entire_text
  2. ↑ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation. {{cite book}}: |author6= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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