page_title: Josef H. Neumann
section_title: Artistic work
hierarchical_section_title: Josef H. Neumann / Life / Artistic work
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Erstes essbares Foto der Welt auf Oblate via Siebdruck mittels gefärbtem Honig unter Verwendung von zugelassenen Lebensmittelfarben
context_page_description: Josef H. Neumann is a German photographer, photo and media designer, photographic artist, specialized photo journalist und art historian.
  Neumann is also the inventor of the chemogram, which is an experimental art involving chemicals.
context_section_description: Since 1979 Neumann lectured at intervals at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the fields photo design and social work. He also had an assignment for Designing with Electronic Media ("Gestaltung mit elektronischen Medien") with the department of computer science of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts for 20 years.
  Since 1986 Neumann photographed for various publishing houses in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland. Neumann mainly worked for the publisher C. J. Bucher (Munich) while often using the Russian panorama camera Horizont. Several panorama illustrated books were published, including Paris, Vienna, Switzerland, Munich, Germany, Tuscany und Sicily.
  His illustrated book Deutschland was awarded twice – in the years 1987 and 1990 – with the Kodak-Fotobuchpreis. In addition, this book has a preface by president Richard von Weizsäcker and was published with an edition of more than 40.000 copies. As the German government has given one copy as a present to each host for several years the book has a worldwide spread.
  While having an academic status at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the department of design from 1986 to 1987 Neumann wrote two standard references Filme kreativ nutzen (Using films creatively) and Objektive kreativ nutzen (Using lenses creatively) together with Harald Mante in 1986 and 1988.
  1993 Neumann lectured at the former Fachhochschule Köln (now Technical University of Cologne) in the department of photo engineering.
  After intensive and creative research in the new camera generation Zoom-Kompakte his book Zoomkompakte kreativ was published in 1994 on occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Japanese camera company Asahi Optical Joint Stock Co. alias Pentax.
  In his city of residence Neumann collaborated with his Gerhard P. Müller and they created two voluminous illustrated books on church treasures of Dortmund, which were published in 1987 and 1999.
  Since 2003 Neumann has artistically worked at intervals in Portugal (Algarve) on photo and video productions.
  Josef H. Neumann is a member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) since 1986th
  Im Januar 2012 he opened his atelier INICIO.de together with the Agentinian artist Virginia Novarin in the Unionviertel in Dortmund.
  Today Neumann works as freelancing photo designer producing image and product commercials for print and video. In addition Neumann regularly works as lecturer on didactic methods of photography for public institutions and private companies.
  Neumann published for all major German photographic journals like Color Foto, Foto, Fotoheft, Fotomagazin, Minolta Mirror, Nikon News, Photo, Photographie, Photo Revue, Professional Camera, ProfiFoto,  fineartfotomagazin. His photographs have been used in numerous German and European publications wow Creative Photography, Relais & Châteaux, Brigitte, Natur, Freizeit Revue, S.Fischer Verlag, Suhrkamp Verlag and Time.
caption: First edible photo in the world on wafer via screen printing using colored honey using certified food colors. Germany, 1976, Josef H. Neumann