Amos Schliack (*1951, Bonn) took up studies in architecture at TU Berlin, but soon switched to photography after encounters with the photographers Herbert List and Max Scheler. He was assistant to Jan de Wit (1974), Charlotte March and Ben Oyne (1975-76) and from 1976 onwards worked as independent photo journalist for journals as GEO, Stern, Merian, FAZ and the Zeit magazine. In the Mid-80s stays in Jerusalem and New York lead to photo books on the cities and Jerusalems quarter Mea Shearim. In 1982-2002 Amos Schliack worked at his own studio, followed by a series of stays abroad at London (from 2004 on), Northern Israel (2006) and Tel Aviv (2008-09). Today Amos Schliack is resident at Hamburg, where he started working on the Stolperstein project in 2012.
awards
1982 1st prize World Press Photo for a documentary on children ill with cancer (Stern)
2008/09 „Photographer in Residence“ at Tel Aviv
2016 stipend for a documentary on the London Eastend following the bus route 149, Stiftung der VG Bild Kunst (project in progress)
exhibitions
2016 Stolpersteine. Fotografien aus dem Grindel. galerie postel, Hamburg
2011 ‚Kodachrome‘, Hommage an einen legedären Film, AOP Gallery, London
1994 ‚Hamburger‘, black/white portaits for a campaign commissioned by Hamburger Sparkasse, PPS Galerie, Hamburg
1984 World Press Photo, Amsterdam
1983 Skyline New York, in verschiedenen Städten in Deutschland
publications (selection)
‚Tel Aviv One Hundred‘, ein Stadtportrait zum Zeitpunkt des Centennials der Stadt /Amos Schliack, Blurb (Photobuch), 2014
Hamburger : Porträts für die Hamburger Sparkasse / Amos Schliack
[Hamburg] : [Hamburger Sparkasse], [circa 1994]
Jerusalem / Amos Schliack. Mit e. Text von Teddy Kollek, Hamburg : Hoffmann u. Campe, 1989, ISBN: 3-455-08400-1
Die Juden von Mea Shearim / fotogr. von Amos Schliack. Mit einem Text von Henryk M. Broder, Hamburg : Ellert & Richter, 1986, ISBN:3-922294-76-6
N.Y. – New York / Amos Schliack,
Hamburg, 1985, ISBN: 3-922294-61-8
Skyline New York /Hg. Dunhill, Text: Mark Woodcock und Jürgen Hansen, Fotos: Amos Schliack, Bremen 1982
Mein Jerusalem / Text: Wibke Bruhns. Bild: Amos Schliack
Hamburg : Gruner & Jahr, 1982, ISBN: 3-570-04952-3
documentaries for journals (1976-84)
Rendille, Bei den Kamelnomaden im Norden Kenias, GEO
Die Mönche vom Berg Athos, GEO
Jerusalem, GEO, GEO USA und stern
Jungfrau von Guadaloupe, Mexico, GEO
Das Jüdische Prag, FAZ-Magazin
Die Barristers von London, FAZ-Magazin
‚Station Peiper‘, Kinder und Krebs, stern
Portraits Berliner Frauen, Zeitmagazin
Salvador de Bahia, Brasilien, GEO
Edelsteinminen in Rio Grande do Sul, Brasilien, GEO
Das Passah-Fest der Samaritaner, Mount Garizim, Westbank, GEO
Bali, Das Jahrhunderfest Eka Dasa Rudra, GEO
Der Borobudur Tempel auf Java, GEO
Religion und Aberglauben in Thailand, GEO USA
Skyline New York for Hansen & Partner / Dunhill
Amos Schliack, Mea Shearim
Amos Schliack, Stolpersteine. Fotografien aus dem Grindel
Amos Schliack, Auschwitz
