Tag: Thomas Hoepker

  • Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    The Magnum Photos member revisits his storied career in a new exhibition and monograph.

    via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/thomas-hoepker-looks-back-at-six-decades-of-photojournalism/

    After receiving a 9×12 camera from his grandfather in 1950, Hoepker became obsessed with photography. By the end of the decade, he was working as a photojournalist — and soon became one of the leading photographers of his day. He traveled the globe, building an extraordinary archive, which Magnum Photos began to distribute in 1964, the same year he joined Stern magazine as a photo-reporter.

  • Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

    https://www.lensculture.com/articles/magnum-photos-turning-points-life-changing-moments-by-magnum-photographers
    From iconic images of major world events, to intimate moments of pleasure and delight — here is an outstanding selection of remarkable images from Magnum Photos — each with a personal story.
  • Hall of Fame Winner Thomas Hoepker at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche « The Leica Camera

    Hall of Fame Winner Thomas Hoepker at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche

    With simple humility, Thomas Hoepker has always seen himself as nothing more than an assignment photographer, someone interested in nothing less than the truth, in the honesty of the moment

  • Thomas Hoepker: Views of a Vanished Country

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    Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker’s upcoming book Views of a Vanished Country contains photographs of East Germany shot over a period of some 30 years. It gives a unique look into the daily life of East Germans from the time the Berlin Wall was erected to the time it was demolished. TIME talked with Hoepker about his book.

  • Berlin,Thomas Hoepker Pictures of East Germany

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    Born in Munich in 1936, Thomas Hoepker was a frequent visitor to East Germany

    Link: Berlin,Thomas Hoepker Pictures of East Germany | La Lettre de la Photographie
  • Thomas Hoepker: Heartland

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    Thomas Hoepker is one of the most acclaimed Magnum photographers. His pictures of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, his shots from the USA in the 1960s, as well as newer photos like the one he took in New York on September 11, 2001, have become emblematic. Hoepker has been using Leica cameras ever since he started working as a photo journalist for renowned magazines.

    Link: Thomas Hoepker: Heartland « The Leica Camera