Signed; Thomas Höpker - Now! Überdosis New York - 1983

This copy signed inscribed by Thomas Höpker on title page.

"Now! Überdosis New York" (translated as Now! Overdose New York) is a rare, highly collaborative 1984 artist photobook created by the acclaimed Magnum photojournalist Thomas Hoepker and the controversial German concept and performance artist HA Schult.

The book serves as a chaotic, unfiltered, and deeply energetic time capsule of New York City in the early 1980s, combining Hoepker’s sharp documentary photography with Schult's provocative text and multimedia drawings.

Rather than presenting a clean, idealized version of the metropolis, the book captures a raw "overdose" of urban life. It contrasts the gritty, buzzing everyday realities of New York street culture with avant-garde artistic commentary. Thomas Hoepker’s Photos: Known for his precision and deep human empathy, Hoepker captured everything from architectural scale to candid street interactions. Schult added text, chaotic poetic musings, and physical drawings directly into the project, mimicking the sensory overload, graffiti, and psychological landscape of the 1980s metropolis.

While Now! Überdosis New York is a highly specific, avant-garde 1980s artifact, Thomas Hoepker's relationship with the city spanned over five decades. If you are looking for his broader, solo career retrospective on the city, his work is compiled in the modern "New York: Revised Edition" published by teNeues. That volume captures the city's macro history from the 1960s up through his haunting, historic photography of September 11th and the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.