Fine Print: Laser light on nude, New York City, 1978 Signature Drop

Fine Print: Laser light on nude, New York City, 1978 Signature DropErich Hartmanns signature style is enigmatic, unfinished and ambiguous. He was never without a camera loaded with black and white film and a small box of extra rolls, which he used to capture what intrigued him. Hartmann began his photographic career in New York City, which would become his home for the rest of his life, and documented the people, patterns and abstract images of this city that so fascinated him. Hartmann saw pictures everywhere.

two fold-outs

of fact and of fiction

His clarity of voice has drawn many comparisons to literature

Marlon Brando

followed Muhammad Ali around Chicago as he prepared for an upcoming fight

Mikhael Subotzky – and a writer

“My pleasures were more in finding the intimate moments that depicted a less self-conscious side to an actor’s character and the offbeat moment behind the scenes on a set rather than what happened in front of a movie camera

'The Americans'

These pictures are a recording of what I saw and the people I met along The River of Kings in Bangkok

Morath’s photographic images are documents

Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with the gang who called themselves The Jokers

and chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne in the 1930s