Peter Cornelius was a German photographer and photojournalist.

After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography in his hometown Kiel

Kiel

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

. From the mid fifties, he specialized in color photography

Color photography

Color photography is photography that uses media capable of representing colors, which are traditionally produced chemically during the photographic processing phase...

 as one of the first color photographers in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. In 1960 he became known to a larger public through the special exhibition Magie der Farbe (Magic of Color) during the Photokina

Photokina

The photokina is the world's largest trade fair for the photographic and imaging industries. The first photokina was held in Cologne, Germany, in 1950, and it is now held biannually in September at the koelnmesse Trade Fair and Exhibition Centre...

 in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. His best known work is a 1961 collection of color photographs of Paris.

Publications

• Farbiges Paris. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1961. With text by Jacques Prévert
  Jacques Prévert
  Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
  
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  • Couleur de Paris. Lausanne: Edita, 1961.
  • Paris in Colour. London: Thames & Hudson, 1962.
  • Paris i färg. Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1962.
• Magie der Farbenphotographie. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1961.
• Köln farbig photographiert. Cologne: Verkehrsamt der Stadt Köln (tourist office of Cologne
  Cologne
  Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
  
  ), 1965. Photographs by Cornelius, Horst Baumann and Chargesheimer. Text in German, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch.
• Farbenfrohes Kiel. Kiel: Mühlau, 1962.
• Farbiges Kiel. Kiel Presseamt (public relations office of Kiel), 1967.
• Olympia der Segler. Bielefeld: Delius Klasing, 1972.
• "Faszination" sailing calendar, Bielefeld: Delius Klasing, 1967–1971.

External links

• Official site of Peter Cornelius with photo galleries and biography.