Karin Szekessy - Mädchen im Atelier - 1986

SMALL, SMART, UNDERRATED NUDE PHOTOBOOK by Karin Székessy (1938–2025), from 1971 until her death in 2010, married to the artist Paul Wunderlich.

The well-known German photographer is famous for her unique, distinctive, super beautiful nude photography, which was already evident in her debut work “Girls in the Studio.” This book was published in 1969 in France, the artist’s second home alongside Germany.

SCARCE BOOK with excellent black and white and color nude photography.

Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund. 1986. First edition, second printing (originally published one year before in the same size, layout and content).

Paperback (as issued). 125 x 175 mm. 176 pages. Photos: Karin Székessy. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Book outside quite fresh with little trace of use; small (surface) paper loss at the bottom of the spine. Overall fine condition.

Great, underrated, small and smart nude photobook by Karin Székessy.

"Between 1957 and 1959, Karin Székessy studied photography at the Institute for Photojournalism in Munich. In 1959 she began creating photographs of dolls, and from 1963 onward she expanded her work to include portraits, artists’ portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and nude photography. In particular, her nude photographs - the central focus of Karin Székessy’s oeuvre - brought her international recognition.
From 1960 to 1966, Székessy worked as a reportage photographer for the magazine Kristall, and between 1962 and 1967 she was a member of the artist group Werkgruppe Zeitgenossen. From 1967 to 1969 she held a teaching position in fashion photography at the Werkkunstschule in Hamburg.
From 1971 until his death in 2010, Karin Székessy was married to the artist Paul Wunderlich. Over the years of their marriage, numerous works were created in close artistic dialogue between them. As the Photobastei Zürich notes: “Both of their oeuvres - also because of their perfection - always moved somewhat along the narrow line between erotically tinged fantasy and luxurious kitsch. Yet above all they represent a vision of cultivated cosmopolitan elegance in the West German art world of the 1960s and 1970s.
Between 1984 and 1987, Karin Székessy also produced around 300 cover photographs for Ullstein crime novels.
Karin Székessy lived in Hamburg and in Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols in southern France.
Her father was the business lawyer Wolfgang Pohle."
(Wikipedia)