Volker Hinz: Hello. Again.

Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) is one of Germany's great photographers and photo journalists. After starting out at Sven Simon's agency in Bonn, he switched to the magazine stern in 1974, for which he produced legendary photo and travel reports, portraits of artists, politicians, and celebrities in the following decades. Never seen without a camera, he left his mark with his pictures - not only on colleagues, friends, and the many people he portrayed, but also in German photojournalism, whose "golden decades" between 1970s and the 1990s he helped shape. His images became part of our shared visual memory. This project, co-initiated by Hinz himself, offers a comprehensive overview of his work beyond his well-known pictures, series and themes, thus proving what a precise judge of character and an astute observer he was.Alongside politicians such as Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Angela Merkel; athletes such as Franz Beckenbauer, Pelé, and Muhammad Ali; musicians such as Annie Lennox, Madonna, and Marianne Faithful; artists such as Marina Abramovic, Keith Haring, and Cindy Sherman; writers such as William S. Burroughs and Günter Grass; and celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Karl Lagerfeld, his photographs from the legendary New York nightclub AREA are included in this extensive illustrated book, as well as small everyday impressions and still lifes taken on his travels. In Hinz's own words: "The photographer must not be a bore. There are enough boring pictures already".

About the Author :
Volker Hinz, born 1947 in Hamburg, sold his first photographs to newspapers and magazines when he was only twenty. 1971 he became the head of the picture agency Sven Simon in Bonn. The photographs he took of German politicians on travels around the world, for instance the first formal visit of a German foreign minister Walter Scheel to China, made him a well-known photojournalist throughout Germany. From 1974 onwards he was staff photographer of stern magazine Hamburg, where he photographed not only politicians but became famous for his reportages from around the world. 1978 Volker Hinz went to New York und worked as a freelance photographer until four month later he became staff photographer of stern magazine again, now based in New York, photographing mainly in the United States and in South America. Here, he took many interesting black and white and colored reportages like those of the New York nightlife, of Hollywood, Washington und Mexico. Since 1986 Volker Hinz lived in Hamburg again.Since the 80ies Volker Hinz had discovered for himself the 2 1/4 inch format camera and photographed, besides 35mm cameras with various cameras in 6x6mm format, exclusively on black and white or color negative film. His work is published in many international magazines like GEO, Life, Look, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Photo or Paris Match. World Press and Art Directors Club Germany repeatedly awarded the projects of Volker Hinz. His photographs were part of many national and international shows and can be found in different private collections and museums.Volker Hinz died in Hamburg on 19th October 2019.