Artists Photography - Hatje Cantz

GERMAINE KRULL

Germaine Krull led an unconventional, nomadic life of adventure. Her extraordinary photographs of technical buildings and industrial plants catapulted her to the forefront of the international photo avant-garde, the New Vision movement.

JAKOB STRAUB

At the intersection of graphic design, photography and typography, Jakob Straub creates outstandingly beautiful books.

JACQUELINE HASSINK

What do the centers of economic power look like in the post-industrial age? Conceptual artist Jacqueline Hassink explores questions like these. The explorative photographer maps spaces and objects of the global economies so that a topography of economic power becomes visible in artistic aesthetics.

GREGORY CREWDSON

Since the mid-1980s, Gregory Crewdson has been developing photo series of beguiling beauty and fundamental irritation and disturbance. Inexplicable secrets lurk beneath the surface of his complex visual worlds.

JÖRN VANHÖFEN

People appear only sporadically in the quiet images of photographer Jörn Vanhöfen, at least at first glance - but his landscapes are places of human omnipresence in times of globalization.

PETER BIALOBRZESKI

Peter Bialobrzeski explores predominantly urban spaces and structures, moving between two poles - between critical documentary and aesthetic beauty, between frightening growth and a glitter and glow.

CHRISTIAN VON STEFFELIN

The massive changes in Berlin's urban space after the fall of the Berlin Wall fascinate Christian von Steffelin. Since 1993, the photographer has documented the various stages of this development. But von Steffelin's images are more than a sober inventory of the architectural changes.

NADAV KANDER

Nadav Kander, who grew up in Johannesburg, discovered his passion for photography at the age of 13. With his portraits of well-known personalities from politics, sports and pop culture, he is now one of the most recognized and successful representatives of his guild.

JUST LOOMIS

Just Loomis began his career as an assistant to Helmut Newton. Successful as a fashion photographer in Milan and New York, Loomis' free works give an honest insight into everyday American life.

NOH SUNTAG

South Korean NOH Suntag's photographs maintain a careful balance between political statement and artistic aesthetic. NOH is interested in the ambivalences and fractures within and between the two Korean societies.

YOUSSEF NABIL

Numerous artists, but also celebrities from the world of film, music and literature posed for the camera of Youssef Nabil.