Photobook

Thomas Hoepker | Italia

eng Italy of the late 1950s comes to life again in the neorealist as well as humanist street photographs of Magnum legend Thomas Hoepker. The beginning of a unique photographic career is now being published for the first time in a photo book by the Buchkunst Berlin publishing house! The then 19-year-old Thomas Hoepker traveled …

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Fred Herzog | Modern Color

eng The most comprehensive book yet published on the Canadian color-photography pioneer Fred Herzog is best known for his unusual use of color photography in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black-and-white imagery. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as prefiguring the New Color photographers of …

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Ruth Kaplan • Bathers

Ruth Kaplan BATHERS ENG GR “Bathers” by Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores the social theatre of communal bathing.  Kaplan began this ten-year project in 1991, photographing bathers in hot springs, bathhouses and hamams from California to Eastern Europe, and from Western Europe high-tech spas to Icelandic hot springs and Moroccan traditional bathhouses, where social bonding is …

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Ruth Kaplan | Bathers

eng ‘Bathers’ explores the social theater of communal bathing, a ritual that is both private and public. Ruth Kaplan’s journey began in the nudist hot springs of California in 1991. By participating in the baths, Kaplan gradually became accepted, and was able to make photographs of her fellow bathers, occupying the dual role of voyeur …

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The Unseen Saul Leiter

eng Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York’s street life with a …

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