‘A detailed and long-overdue account.… This excellent translation, with its high-quality reproductions, does much to explain the enormous impact of the Düsseldorf phenomenon on contemporary art’ – The Art Newspaper

The Düsseldorf School of Photography has become a byword for artistic excellence
and innovation.

This large format, magnificently printed volume traces the school's ascendancy from the mid-1970s, when husband and wife team Bernd and Hilla Becher first gave art photography institutional support and a home.

Filled with superb reproductions of three generations of the participating artists’ best-known photographs, this impeccable survey offers the first thorough overview of this important school, one that now dominates sale-rooms and museums.

Bernd & Hilla Becher
Laurenz Berges
Elger Esser
Andreas Gursky
Candida Höfer
Axel Hütte
Simone Nieweg
Thomas Ruff
Jörg Sasse
Thomas Struth
Petra Wunderlich

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