Placeholder text

Go to cart

Thomas Hoepker – Italia

By Barcia, Raúl Morales

Thomas Hoepker – Italia

By Barcia, Raúl Morales

0 - Used - very good
Description
Thomas Hoepker, then 19 years old, travelled regularly to Italy in 1956 and the following years to take photographs with a Leica MP. His view was not that of a tourist, but that of an explorer. Clear, often cinematographiclooking image compositions are created, which tell self-contained stories of encounters with people and their everyday rituals. In these photographs, Hoepker found a social perspective that would accompany and shape his work. His humanistic view and the film-like compositions of the images bring the photographs close to the neorealist cinema of the time. And everything is the Italy of those years, of the onset of mass tourism in the big cities, accompanied by a certain modernisation, and the Italy of the simplicity and poverty of the south, which he documents in detail in several series. An attitude to life between awakening and tradition, an everyday kaleidoscope full of street scenes, religious processions or political demonstrations - everything becomes part of the narrative. During his travels in Italy between 1956 and 1959, he created a collection of more than 10,000 negatives, from which the book ITALIA presents an extensive selection of 124 photographs on 200 pages. In the photographs, which were taken in Italy between 1956 and 1959, Thomas Hoepker develops his photographic language and creates individual images of memory. It was the beginning of a photographic career lasting more than six decades, which took him all over the world and, via the magazines Stern and Geo, to full membership of the photo agency Magnum Photos in 1989. He was its president from 2003 to 2007. At the centre of all his pictures and reportages is the human being and his life in the social communities. The photo book, which is published in English and German, is accompanied by a sensitive essay by the author and director Raúl Morales Barcia, as well as an afterword by the publisher and editor Thomas Gust.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2023-07-01
Publication Date:
2023-07-01
Publisher:
Verlag Buchkunst Berlin
Languages:
Published: German, Published: English, Original: English, Original: German
ISBN10:
3981980573
Minimum Reading Age:
3
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
760 g
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out