SIGNED; Thomas Hoepker - The way it was. Road Trips USA (LAST BOOK DURING LIFE-TIME, MINT CONDITION) - 2022

VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY to purchase the LAST PHOTOBOOK by well-known German Magnum photographer and president Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024) coming out during lifetime -
in BRANDNEW CONDITION + SIGNED (!). Only a few signed copies were in the market.

"I am not an artist. I am an image maker."
- Thomas Hoepker -

BRILLIANT PHOTOBOOK.

Signed by the image maker :)
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

New, mint, unread.
Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil (only opened once for signature).

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"Thomas Höpker was twenty-seven when the magazine Kristall sent him to America in 1963. "Take a look around," was the terse assignment. It took him from coast to coast through almost half of all the states. Three months later he returned with thousands of black-and-white photographs: mainly of people in their everyday lives. Photographed in the big cities, but also in the hinterland. The reportage - spread over four issues of the magazine - instantly catapulted him to the forefront of photojournalism. It was not a glowing picture he had painted, but behind scepticism and reservation, so much curiosity shone through that no one was surprised when Thomas Höpker decided to move to America for good several years later. After a stellar career, first with the magazine Stern, later with the Magnum agency, of which he was president for a long time, he retired in New York. But then in 2020, Höpker, now eighty-four years old, decided to take the tour from back then once again.
The volume Road Trips, USA now interweaves the two undertakings and intersperses hundreds of his long historical photographs with colour photographs from today. In this way, the book takes the viewer on a journey through the entire continent as well as through time."
(from the publisher)

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Steidl, Göttingen. 2022. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover in linen (as issued). 220 x 285 mm. 192 pages. 436 photos. Photos: Thomas Hoepker. Edited by: Freddy Langer. Text in English.

Great photobook in perfect condition - signed by the artist.

Thomas Hoepker is a german photographer, born on 10th june 1936 in Munich, lived in New York since 1976. Thomas Hoepker worked for the well-known magazines "twen", "Kristall" and "Stern". He became famous through his photos of "Muhammad Ali" and his photo of "9/11". Thomas Hoepker is MAGNUM member since 1989. Thomas Hoepker was president of MAGNUM from 2003 till 2007. Thomas Hoepker is famous for many great photobooks, for example for "Yatun Papa" (802 photobooks from the M. + M. Auer collection, page 425).

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