BRILLIANT FIRST BOOK by the IMPORTANT, BUT STILL HIHGLY UNDERRATED German photographer Dirk Reinartz. MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION. NEW, MINT, UNREAD (protected by a highly professional , easily removable plastic/paper book jacket). Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Steidl, Göttingen. 1989. First edition, first printing. Brilliant condition: new, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publishers plastic foil. Hardcover with dustjacket. 236 x 199 mm. 176 pages. Photos (all in black and white): Dirk Reinartz. Text in German. Fantastic German photobook - in perfect condition. Dirk Reinartz was born in Aachen in 1947. He studied photography under Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule in Essen. He had been documenting Richard Serra’s work for over 25 years. From 1971 to 1977, he was a photo reporter for Stern magazine. His numerous travels took him to many countries on all continents. In 1977 he joined the VISUM photography group, from which he left in 1982 to work completely independently from then on. Reinartz's reportages and reports appeared in many magazines, including "Life", "Fortune", "Der Spiegel", "SZ-Magazin" and especially "Zeit-Magazin" and "Art". Since 1985, he has also published his work in book form. Dirk Reinartz's photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions, his "Totenstill" project in 25 locations worldwide, including Berlin, New York, Warsaw and Santiago de Chile. Dirk Reinartz has been Professor of Photography at the Muthesius University in Kiel since 1998. He lived in Buxtehude near Hamburg. Dirk Reinartz died on 27 March 2004 while travelling in Berlin.