Matthias Harder Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Virtually unparalleled in scope and spanning more than five decades, the photography of visionary Helmut Newton (1920–2004) reached millions through publication in magazines like Vogue and Elle. His oeuvre transcended genres, bringing elegance, style, and voyeurism to fashion, portrait, and glamour photography through a body of work that remains as inimitable as it is unrivaled. Having mastered the art of fashion photography early in his career, Newton’s shoots invariably went beyond standard practice, blurring the lines between reality and illusion. Newton’s clear aesthetic pervades all areas of his work, particularly fashion, portraiture, and nude photography. Women take center stage – with subjects such as Catherine Deneuve, Liz Taylor, and Charlotte Rampling. Moving beyond traditional narrative approaches, Newton’s fashion photography is imbued not only with luxurious elegance and subtle seduction, but also cultural references and a surprising sense of humor. During the 1990s, Newton shot for the German, American, Italian, French, and Russian editions of Vogue, primarily in and around Monte Carlo where he was living from 1981 onwards. Transforming locations like his own garage into starkly contrasting or particularly minimalist theatrical stages, Newton would often portray the eccentric lives of the beautiful and rich, full of eroticism and elegance, in unconventional scenarios. He made use of and simultaneously questioned visual clichés, at times tinged with self-irony or mockery, but always full of empathy. Helmut Newton. Legacy, which accompanies an international exhibition tour of Newton’s work, showcases highlights from one of the most published bodies of work in photography, including numerous rediscovered images. A prolific image maker and genuine visionary, this book celebrates Newton’s lasting influence on modern photography and visual art to this day. The exhibition HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY will be on view at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin from October 31, 2021 to May 22, 2022.

Wilmsen’s photographic portrait of the Bode Museum defamiliarizes the staging of art objects Berlin- and Chicago-based photographer Andrea Wilmsen subverts our perception of the museum interior in her photographs of overlooked spaces and stray architectural details in Berlin’s Bode Museum.

Just Loomis' first photographs were made in the mid-1970s, recording the railway lines and the casinos of his birthplace in Reno, Nevada; they tell of the highs and lows of everyday life in the American West. A former assistant and friend of Helmut Newton's, Loomis (born 1957) worked in the 1980s as a fashion photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine . Turning to portraiture and documentary photography in 1990, Loomis began to make portrait photographs, in both black and white and in color, that show a raw and affectionate view of everyday life in America: a waitress behind a counter in a Hollywood diner, a young couple exuding the bliss of early romance, or children caught in moments of play. From his earliest work through to this latest collection, the photographer's first monograph, Loomis' method has been to insist on the value and beauty of what lies immediately to hand, and to locate the moments that illuminate that fact for the viewer. As June Newton states, "He understands these people, as he comes from the same place. These pictures are without artifice of any kind... I call them a perfect example of Americana today."

Blumen sind für zeitgenössische Fotografen ein Symbol für Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit. Dieser Bildband zeigt erstmals die faszinierenden Arbeiten von 32 internationalen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern. Botanische Studien treten zugunsten abstrakter Naturdarstellungen in den Hintergrund. Nobuyoshi Araki malt farbenfrohe Blüten mit noch lebhafteren Farben, während Vera Mercer die Farben nach der Fotografie digital verändert. Luzia Simons nutzt eine eigene Methode der ›Dokumentation‹, indem sie Blumen scannt und damit einen dreidimensionalen Effekt erzielt. Michael Wesely beobachtet den langsamen Verwelkungsprozess eines Tulpenstraußes durch Langzeitbelichtung. In der Einleitung werden die Vorväter des 20. Jahrhunderts, wie Irving Penn und Robert Mapplethorpe, zitiert, und es werden neue Herangehensweisen an das Thema erläutert. Jeder Künstler wird mit einer Kurzbeschreibung vorgestellt. Zu den Künstlern zählen unter anderem Nobuyoshi Araki, Jessica Backhaus, Roger Ballen, Vera Mercer, David Lynch und Michael Wesely. Der Band umfasst rund 150 großformatige Abbildungen, die das kreative Spektrum weltberühmter Künstler präsentieren. Ein sensationelles Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis rundet das Angebot ab.

Herbert List, who died in 1975, was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Early in his career he photographed primarily in Italy and Greece, attracted like many previous travelers to the countries' beauty. List came of age in Germany during the development of the "new objectivity"; his photographs, surreal in aesthetic, in certain ways parallel de Chirico's paintings. After World War II he photographed the ruins of Munich, portraying the consequences of destruction by means of a classical visual form. List was the youngest of a famous group of photographers -- Hoyningen-Huene, Cecil Beaton, and Horst P. Horst -- and his photographic oeuvre is perhaps the freshest and most artistic of these distinguished individuals. This large volume assembles 250 of Herbert List's most famous images in the first comprehensive compilation of his work. The photographs are organized according to five themes: Metaphysical Photography, Ruins and Fragments, Eros and Photography, Portraits, and Moments. Accompanying the images are essays written by five important historians of photography and art.