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2018 gewann der italienische Fotograf Francesco Neri mit einer Portraitstudie über Landwirte seiner norditalienischen Heimat den erstmals ausgelobten August-Sander-Preis für Portraitphotographie der Photographischen Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln. Neri, der bei Guido Guidi in Ravenna studierte, kommt aus der analogen Tradition. Seine sorgfältig komponierten Portraits von Männern, Frauen und Kindern der bäuerlichen Betriebe sind überraschend ...

Berlin 1945-2000 A Photographic Subject explores how German and international photographers alike photographed Berlin between the immediate postwar years and the end of the twentieth century. Curator and art historian Candice M. Hamelin selected exemplary works by more than twenty photographers. The book, which is published to accompany a major exhibition at the Reinbeckhallen in Berlin, opens with black-and-white photographs of Berlin in ruins and concludes with images of Berlin's urban deve...

Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) is one of Germany's great photographers and photo journalists. After starting out at Sven Simon’s agency in Bonn, he switched to the magazine stern in 1974, for which he produced legendary photo and travel reports, portraits of artists, politicians, and celebrities in the following decades. Never seen without a camera, he left his mark with his pictures - not only on colleagues, friends, and the many people he portrayed, but also in German photojournalism, whose "g...

((Please scroll down for English version)) In Anlehnung an den Ausspruch des französischen Filmregisseurs Robert Bresson »Mach sichtbar, was vielleicht ohne dich nie wahrgenommen worden wäre«, fotografierte der Berliner Fotograf Günter Steffen zwischen 1984 und 1989 einen beeindruckenden Zyklus über Ostberlins Mitte in der er damals lebte und arbeitete. Meistens in den frühen Morgenstunden streifte er durch scheinbar unberührte und leere Straßen, Plätze, Hinterhöfe, Ruinen und an d...

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Dieses Buch zeigt Bilder Peter Bialobrzeskis aus dem England der frühen 90er Jahre. Er schloss dort sein Folkwang Studium mit einem einjährigen DAAD-Stipendium am London College of Communication und dieser Arbeit in Buchform ab. Das Buch entstand damals als handgebundenes Einzelexemplar unter Verwendung von Originalfotografien noch völlig analog, und fand keine Verbreitung und Öffentlichkeit. 27 Jahre und über 20 Buchveröffentlichungen später, e...

KONTINENT In Search of Europe is the new publication and exhibition project of OSTKREUZ-Agency of Photographers, Berlin. As in previous editions, a common topic was designated for agency members to work on for several years. KONTINENT is the seventh joint thematic publication of the agency members. Over the past three decades they have received recognition in Germany and abroad for their high-quality artistic, documentary photojournalism. As an artistic and political statement, the twenty-thr...

This book tells the extraordinary story of what later became known as the “CIA’s Secret War” in the Asian country of Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the largest clandestine CIA operation to this day. A guerrilla army of Hmong people fought against the North Vietnamese communist-supported Pathet Lao. While the war in next-door Vietnam was widely covered by the media, the Secret War was decidedly not. Reporters who came to investigate rumors about a war were turned away at gunpoint—...

Each series of images and tableaux in Barbara Probst’s Exposures consist of up to fourteen individual images that capture the same moment from multiple perspectives. This enables the viewer to grasp the same moment from different perspectives without having to move—a visual paradox, so to speak. This book presents her latest, mostly unpublished works from areas that actually belong to classic genres of photography rather than to conceptual photography: street photography, fashion, nudes a...