Creating your own Image – A Visit to Angelika Platen’s Studio
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
by elke
Her photographic portraits of artists not only document the who’s who of art history. More than that, many of these very images themselves have become icons of photography history in the genre of artist portraits. Whether Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, or Hanne Darboven – Angelika Platen always manages to capture the person behind, or even with the art. How did her career lead to these encounters? She tells me all about this in an exciting journey through time, beginning in the late 1960s, in her studio in Berlin-Charlottenburg … (to read more tap on picture)
- Published in Photography, Studio visits
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Andy Warhol, Angelika Platen, Berlin, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker, Joseph Beuys, Künstlerporträts, Sigmar Polke