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TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL PRINTING from 1978 (!) of this great book by German photographer and photojournalist Roswitha Hecke; not to mix with same-named later printings from 1982 and 1987.

Roswitha Hecke was working for magazines like "Stern", "Vogue", "Twen", "Playboy", "Die Zeit" and "Spiegel". Her work "LoveLife", about the Zurich prostitute Irene, won the 1979 Kodak Prize as "Best Photobook". In 1982, it was awarded the prize as "Most beautiful book" by the German foundation "Stiftung Buchkunst" and was published in Norway, the United States and Japan.

Rogner and Bernhard, Munich. 1978. First edition, first printing.

Paperback. 170 x 240 mm. 142 pages. Photos: Roswitha Hecke. Text in German.

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Inside fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside quite fresh with no creases (often the case); a bit rubbed along the spine (often the case). Overall fine condition.

Cult photobook by Roswitha Hecke - here in the scarce first printing. 

"Roswitha Hecke was born 1944 in Hamburg. With content ranging from faces to places, her photographic projects explore the unfamiliar and re-examine the familiar.
Hecke wanted to become a photographer from the time she was a teenager. The daughter of a teacher, she had never before held a camera in her hands, but one morning, she woke up one knowing that she needed to take photos. After a three-year apprenticeship as a photographer, Hecke became acquainted with the theatrical director Peter Zadek. During the seven years of their relationship, she photographed Zadek’s theatre productions exclusively. This period was followed by shots of many other stage works and films, including productions by Werner Schroeter, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and, in Paris, of Éric Rohmer.
Hecke lived with the German author and poet Wolfgang Wondratscheck and travelled with him around the United States in the 1970s. They published a book together entitled People, Places, Fists. Hecke has portrayed many artists, actors and musicians, including Omar Sharif, Heinz Bennent, Ingrid Caven and Andrés Segovia.
Hecke regards herself as a modern nomad. She has travelled the world: France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, India, Mexico, Peru, USA, Spain, and Switzerland. In Morocco, she lived in a tent for three years . In 2002, she moved to St. Petersburg, where she taught the Masterclass of Photography at the Art Academy.
At present, Hecke lives in Hamburg. She has two sons, Said and Ivan.
Hecke was first recognised for her black-and-white photography of theatrical scenes and portraits. In the beginning of the 1970s, she switched to photojournalism and colour photography. Her unstaged photographs explore strange and yet often simple worlds and situations. She is a precise, unprejudiced and sensitive observer. Some of her photo-cycles deal with people living on the edge of society: transvestites, homeless people and prostitutes. Her photos are respectful and do not rob her subjects of their dignity. Another one of her favorite topics is the fascination with the human male as such and all the expressions of machismo. Her work was published by numerous renowned German magazines like Stern, Vogue, Twen, Playboy, Theater heute, Die Zeit, Spiegel, and others."
(Wikipedia)

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Roswitha Hecke - Liebesleben ("LoveLife") - 1978

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