Fine Print: Laser light, wall of empty room. New York City, 1977 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)

Fine Print: Laser light, wall of empty room. New York City, 1977 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)Erich Hartmanns signature style is enigmatic, unfinished and ambiguous. He was never without a camera loaded with black and white film and a small box of extra rolls, which he used to capture what intrigued him. Hartmann began his photographic career in New York City, which would become his home for the rest of his life, and documented the people, patterns and abstract images of this city that so fascinated him. Hartmann saw pictures everywhere.

In reality

Known for his use of garish colours and esoteric composition

The lower images shift perspective

helped in the creation of portraits that went beyond the usual “glamour shots

Rather than set out to build a complete picture of the ruptured post-Soviet territory

Washington DC

He described the voyage as nothing less than extraordinary: “A recent trip blew my mind across this state of being

witnesses of certain processes and events

fulfillment

who joined Magnum photo agency in 1951

where he took this photograph of villagers collecting scrap metal from the wreckage of a crashed spacecraft surrounded by thousands of white butterflies

two California lovers are caught kissing in the wing mirror of their car