Mahogany 13x18cm Field Camera 'Ulrich Mack'

Unmarked large format Mahogany Camera owned and used by Ulrich Mack, with Carl Zeiss Jena Göerz-Dagor 6.8/24cm no.957896, 12 matching mahogany double film holders. With exhibition catalogue 'Mack 60 Photographien' for Ulrich Mack's 60th Anniversary exhibition showing the photographer with this camera on the front cover. Together with a Gelatine silver print, 22.5x19cm, later print, signed, annotated and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, his blind stamp in the margin and copyright stamps on the reverse. Fisherman’s widow Netti M. Brook, 90 years old, Harkers Island, North Carolina 1984. Mack is among Germany's most esteemed photographers. The present image is part of his extensive photo project ‘Inselmenschen - Island People’, which was published in 1995 in the same-named award winning book. The series was taken in two isolated fishing communities: Pellworm, off the coast of Germany, and Harkers Island, North Carolina. There he documented the everyday life and inhabitants of the two different islands. Mack took the stunning images with this antique mahogany field camera.