Here you find 15 stories with 1038 photos

THE WHITE GOLD OF PUGLIA.
FROM SEAWATER, FOLLOWING THE RHYTHM OF MAN AND NATURE, THE SALT IS BORN.

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Dazzling sunlight reflects off the salt crystals in the salt fields of the Salina di Margherita di Savoia ...

HANNA SCHYGULLA

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Exactly 44 years ago, the tremendous actress HANNA SCHYGULLA came to my studio early one morning ...

HARRY'S BAR

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In 1928, a bartender named Giuseppe Cipriani lent Harry Pickering, a young American tourist, all his savings so that Harry could travel back to the USA ...

VERUSCHKA

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I reached Vera on the telephone in New York and she readily agreed to take the short flight from there to Eleuthera in the Bahamas ...

HELLO AND GOODBYE
Life Lines

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In every encounter with the other during the course of a person’s lifetime, reciprocal influence, change becomes possible ...

INVITATION

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In the rich oeuvre created by the photographer Christian von Alvensleben, the still lifes of set tables are a particularly magnificent chapter ...

COOKING
Two planets, two worlds

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I received a call from VOGUE Magazine: “Hello Mr. v. A., ...

THE LEOPARD’S TRAIL
MOZAMBIQUE 1963

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In the autumn of 1962, the 21 year old Christian von Alvensleben started out on his first great journey. With an image of Hemingway's ‘Green Hills of Africa’ in his mind's eye and a Leica in his luggage he set off for Mozambique ...

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Spring 1972. A black and white photo casting took place in Hamburg, a color shoot on the isle of Ibiza.

MOVING TARGETS

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After collecting our five-year old godson from the airport in Rhodes we drove on to Lindos. Jonas had a very unhappy look on his face as he gazed out of the car window. A little while later he said, “It looks as if it’s been raining rubbish here”. We had to admit that he was absolutely right – and that we had to do something about it ...

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1977 was an important year for the resistance of the indigenous peoples of both the Americas. The UN Special Committee on Decolonization in Geneva had scheduled a one-week conference for September on land theft, racism and genocide. The International Indian Treaty Council, ...

MEMORIES OF FRANCE

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These photographs dating from the eighties depict recollections of a delightful and very relaxed way of life in the French countryside. It felt as if plants, humans and animals encountered one another with love and respect ...

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This photo essay of mine impressively documents the long months of dogged and unsparing preparation undertaken by the boxer Dariusz Michalczewski for the brief fireworks of a boxing match ...

MOTORCYLCES

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Motorcycles are part of my life.
In the summer of 1946, when I was just five years old, I always used to wait with my friends beside the main road B2 every Sunday morning for the event of the week, for three US soldiers all astride one bike ...

THE TOYS OF TOMI UNGERER

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In October 1976 I travelled with STERN magazine’s art director Wolfgang Behnken to visit the artist Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg. Tomi Ungerer was just in the process of preparing his collection of toys ...