Gerd Rattei. Das Aktfotografische Werk. Die Retrospektive - preface; Frank Becker - Berlin, BEBUG / Bild und Heimat, 2022 - 192 pp - hardback - 27 x 22 cm. Language: German. Mint condition. Overview work of the nude-photography of famous German (former DDR) photographer Gerd Rattei. »In the GDR, a scene developed early on - also as a niche of personal freedom and inspired by the assertive, state-tolerated nudist movement - in which professional photographers, but also self-taught photographers, began to achieve considerable achievements in the field of aesthetic nude photography. Gerd Rattei from Cottbus, a graduate of the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Arts, is one of the pioneers of this genre... Since the early 1960s until today, almost sixty years ago, he has been writing with poetry and humor, with a loving but also voluptuous eye , but above all with great respect, beautiful women, sassy girls and blood-filled femininity are captured in the photo. Gerd Rattei's photographic tableaus, his sometimes playful, sometimes romantically staged, gently erotic and always aesthetic images, are a bow to beauty, a homage to each and every one of the models, sparkling with youthful freshness or shining with the gentle shimmer of maturity.«