‘One of those classic books that you just know you have to have … an impressive body of work’ – Black & White Photography

‘A wonderful retrospective’ – The Sunday Telegraph

‘The most comprehensive retrospective of the photographer’s work ever made’ – Vogue

‘An exemplary body of work full of passion, glamour and – above all – so many stories’– Upstreet

Munkacsi’s work reveals a tense, technology-obsessed, glamorous and contradictory epoch. He published his first sports photos in 1921, and went on to work for Berlin Illustrirte Zeitung, Uhu, Die Dame, Vu and other international publications. By the time he emigrated to the USA in 1934, he had revolutionized fashion photography. He worked for Harper’s Bazaar, published works in LIFE to great acclaim, and photographed the influential series ‘How Americans Live’ for Ladies’ Home Journal.

Munkacsi combined journalistic accuracy with a highly formal aesthetic, inspiring Henri Cartier-Bresson to take up the art.

Munkacsi’s work was scattered throughout the world, but this volume brings together for the first time images from all Munkacsi’s artistic phases, including several photographs and bodies of work never seen since their magazine publication.

F. C. Gundlach is a photographer and founder of the photography museum Haus der Photographie in Hamburg.

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