Herbert List

In the 30s, Herbert list had compiled a portfolio of photographs for a large book on Greece. The outbreak of the war prevented the project from being realized. In association with the Herbert List estate, Schirmer/Mosel first produced a reconstruction of the planned book in 1993. The photographs--landscapes, fragments of sculpture, ruined temples, people at the sea--conjure up a vision of classical Hellas bathed in light and beauty, with the traces of the 20th century largely excluded. In view of the tempestuous assaults made by "civilizing" development, Herbert List's photographs themselves are today like archeological discoveries that have come down to us from a distant, long-vanished Golden Age. Edited by photographer Max Scheler, the book contains an essay by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, in which the Austrian poet and dramatist describes his first journey to Greece in 1922. Now available again in a special low-price softcover reprint.

The Monograph

During 1929, Herbert List began to photograph the young men he knew and traveled with throughout Greece, Italy, and Germany. He captured the innocence of their beauty and physical prowess before Hitler's politics commandeered those qualities for his own bleak purposes. The relationship, in List's mind, of these young men to Greek statues is emphasized by the occasional juxtaposition of nude or semi-nude figures with fragments of Greek statues.

Junge Männer

Günter Metken

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Monika Faber

Werner Michael Schwarz

Erik Kästner

Sandra Mühlenberend

Arne Reimer

Surreal and fantastical wax figures, captured by the lens of a famed Magnum photographer German photographer Herbert List (1903-1975) was known for his commercial work with magazines such as Vogueand Life. In 1944, he photographed the wax mannequins and automata inside Vienna's Prater, a long-standing, then-derelict fairground. Based on List's original draft, this publication presents this series in full.

Herbert List. Panoptikum

Max Scheler

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hellas

Bruce Weber

Matthias Harder

Gunter Metken

Herbert List s photography has become part of the classical canon of 20th-century pictorial art. By their metaphysical and visual presence, his pictures are as familiar to us and as influential as de Chirico's visions are in painting. This monograph on List's oeuvre presents for the first time all phases of his creativity: the early fotografia metafisica; his Greece photographs blending Antiquity, Mediterranean light and Eros in visions of Classical Hellas; his sensitive homoerotic pictures; his artist portraits of the 40s through to the 60s; and the human interest photography of his late work. Essays by noted authors explore List s particular interests and the photo-historic context of his oeuvre. A selection of List s own writings, a comprehensive chronology, a bibliography, a list of exhibitions, and a list of publications complete this lavish volume.

Photographs 1930-1972

The Essential Herbert List

Herbert List, Photographs 1930-1970

Ulrich Pohlmann

Ludger Derenthal

Münchner Ruinen

Herbert List Memento 1945

Herbert List

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