Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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F.C. Gundlach<br />
The Photographic Work<br />
This definitive monograph brings together Gundlach’s fashion work for the first time and establishes him as a leading<br />
light of the industry. One of the most distinguished German fashion photographers of the post-war era, Gundlach wrote<br />
fashion history over a period of forty years. His work presents not only the evolution of clothing, but also the poses,<br />
gestures, props and locations, which have defined the changing idea of beauty over decades. Alongside this work,<br />
Gundlach also created emphatic portraits, reportages and travel photography. Gundlach has always considered himself<br />
a photographer on assignment, and his work for high-circulation magazines shaped the public’s perception of fashion.<br />
Yet his images also captured the spirit of their time, embodying the optimism of the meagre days after the war, through<br />
op and pop art to post-modernism. The Photographic Work is the long-awaited English edition of the original German<br />
book, which won a Silver Deutscher Fotobuchpreis in 2009.<br />
F.C. Gundlach was born in Heinebach, Germany in 1926, and his work portraits fashion from 1950 to 1990, from haute<br />
couture to prêt-à-porter, from Berlin’s tailoring to today’s unisex fashion. Working for magazines such as Film und Frau<br />
(1952–1966) and Brigitte (1963–1986), Gundlach was formative in determining the public perception of fashion at this<br />
time. His is the oeuvre of a great photographer who defied in Theodor W. Adorno’s words the “clotted discrepancy<br />
between the sterile and the useful” of visual imagery.<br />
F.C. Gundlach<br />
The Photographic Work<br />
Edited and texts by Klaus Honnef, Hans-Michael Koetzle,<br />
Sebastian Lux and Ulrich Rüter<br />
Book design by Claas Möller<br />
304 pages<br />
9.4 x 11.8 in. / 24 x 30 cm<br />
550 images<br />
Four colour process<br />
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket<br />
€ 65.00 / £ 48.00 / US$ 88.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86521-594-9<br />
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