Cars were an indispensible aspect of twentieth-century culture, both for their utility and aesthetics. From 1974 to 1976, Langdon Clay photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New York City and nearby Hoboken,...

Als Willy Brandt 1961 dreißig Schriftsteller nach Bonn einlud, um sie für den Bundestagswahlkampf der SPD zu gewinnen, fehlte ausgerechnet Günter Grass auf seiner Liste. Der Bestsellerautor sei, so ging das Gerücht, Anarchist und für...

So anarchisch amüsant wie der junge Gnossos Pappadopoulis hat noch niemand eine Verbindungsparty ruiniert, seinen Universitätsdekan um den Finger gewickelt oder einen Priester dazu gebracht, ihm gegen die Folgen einer durchzechten Nacht...

Anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstags wird das fotografische Lebenswerk Peter Keetmans (1916-2005) in dieser umfangreichen Retrospektive neu zu entdecken sein. Sein Werk nimmt einen zentralen Platz in der fotografischen Nachkriegsmoderne...

For twenty years now Lois Hechenblaikner has been photographing the fans at Austrian folk music festivals. On his travels he has visited more than a hundred festivals, open-air concerts and fan gatherings. Hechenblaikner's particular...

Most collectors have their own unique attractions and approaches to the objects of their collecting. This volume features the adventures of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, two renowned fi lmmakers who began collecting Japanese photography...

It is largely thanks to László Moholy-Nagy's artistic and journalistic efforts that photography became an integral part of modern artistic creation, starting in the 1920s. His photograms are icons of the medium, and yet his photographic...

The work of German-American photographer Evelyn Hofer (1922-2009) is characterized by her single-minded creative drive and dedication to recording the essentials of her subjects. Hofer portraits her vis-à-vis-not only people, but also...

In the late nineties Bryan Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, andso chose to pick up the camera himself. That serendipitous decision was the beginning of a successful photographiccareer,...

Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter's vast archive, "In My Room" provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated...

In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the...

With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin created images that contained fascinating stories, compositions and colors. He radically broke conventions of commercial photography with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor. Famed for his...