This new publication by Alex MacLean for Schirmer/Mosel features 191 pictures taken from a helicopter above Manhattan. Nearly all are previously unreleased. Alex MacLean is an American photographer born in 1947. A pilot, he is well-known for his pictures taken in flight. He took a vas...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

German choreographer Pina Bausch, born in 1940 and founder of the ground breaking Tanztheater Wuppertal whose dance theater style met with wide international acclaim, died in 2009. Her theater, her dance and her art was a brilliant blend of classical dance, improvisation, p...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

Giverny is a small French village in Upper Normandy well known as the home of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). He bought a house there in 1883 and tended to its garden, whose ponds and water lilies became the subjects of his most famous paintings. By immortalizing t...

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Simone Nieweg, born in Germany in 1962, lives and works in Düsseldors. She studied photography under Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1984 to 1990. Simone Nieweg photographs the gardens, fields, prairies and forests that have held her interest for the past 30 years. Th...

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To mark the occasion of this exhibition, Schirmer/Mosel will publish the retrospective work, Unconscious Places, which brings together more than 230 street photographs Struth has taken across the world over the past 40 years. The book will be published in August 2012 with an comprehe...

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Schirmer/Mosel Showroom is a Munich gallery space and bookstore founded in 1998 by the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel. The showroom is situated in the beautiful arcades running along the Hofgarten, first built in the 17th century and then restored after World War II. This baroque garde...

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Founded in Munich on April 1, 1974, by Lothar Schirmer and Erik Mosel, the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel is today run by Lothar Schirmer with the help of a team of twelve people. For the past 37 years, Schirmer/Mosel has published the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th ...

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Senior prom is a near mandatory ritual for American teenagers. Prom, the latest work by the photographer Mary Ellen Mark, celebrates this event, long associated with losing one’s virginity. From 2006 to 2009, Mark visited thirteen private and public US schoo...

19.06.2012[ read full story ]

American publisher Rizzoli just released the first major monograph about Ryan McGinley whose work has been recognized for the past ten years. Through his viewfinder, we rediscover the intimacy of his generation, photographed with brio. In 2000, Ryan McGinley turned 22. He organ...

18.06.2012[ read full story ]

Identity is an ever-shifting series of self-imposed labels that come from within and without. It is who we are and who we think we are that creates the self. We define ourselves based on that which we are attracted to or repulsed by; we identify with who we aspire to be and who we fear we...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]