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Hardcover. 192 pages.
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The bestselling author duo Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta, known for their successful and award-winning book ›Live Again Before Death‹, are now presenting a new, impressive photo book: ›Hands‹.
The internationally renowned photographer Walter Schels has always been fascinated by hands. After the face, they are the most expressive part of the human body. Life leaves its mark on them too. When he portrayed personalities from politics, culture, and the intellectual world, Schels also photographed their palms. The result is fascinating and striking black and white portraits of unusual closeness and directness. His images are complemented by texts by the journalist Beate Lakotta; in her essay, she describes the insights about people that sciences such as evolutionary biology, genetics, and anthropology draw from the shape of our hands. With photographs of Angela Merkel, Helmut Schmidt, Yehudi Menuhin, and the Dalai Lama, among others.
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Walter Schels , born in Landshut in 1936, is a passionate researcher of human physiognomy. He is concerned with capturing the essence and personality of a subject in photography. He became known for his character studies of artists and politicians, as well as prominent figures from the cultural and intellectual world. For his work, he has received, among other awards, the Hansel Mieth Prize, the Gold Medal of the Art Directors Club of Germany, the Lead Award of the Academy for New Visual Language, and the World Press Photo Award. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.
Beate Lakotta , born in Kassel in 1965, was an editor in the science section of the news magazine "Der Spiegel" for over ten years. There, she reported on topics related to medical ethics, psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. Since 2010, she has worked for the magazine as a crime and justice reporter. She was awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize for her 2003 reportage "Noch mal leben vor dem Tod" (Live Again Before Death), published in Der Spiegel together with Walter Schels.
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Hardcover. 192 pages.
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The bestselling author duo Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta, known for their successful and award-winning book ›Live Again Before Death‹, are now presenting a new, impressive photo book: ›Hands‹.
The internationally renowned photographer Walter Schels has always been fascinated by hands. After the face, they are the most expressive part of the human body. Life leaves its mark on them too. When he portrayed personalities from politics, culture, and the intellectual world, Schels also photographed their palms. The result is fascinating and striking black and white portraits of unusual closeness and directness. His images are complemented by texts by the journalist Beate Lakotta; in her essay, she describes the insights about people that sciences such as evolutionary biology, genetics, and anthropology draw from the shape of our hands. With photographs of Angela Merkel, Helmut Schmidt, Yehudi Menuhin, and the Dalai Lama, among others.
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Walter Schels , born in Landshut in 1936, is a passionate researcher of human physiognomy. He is concerned with capturing the essence and personality of a subject in photography. He became known for his character studies of artists and politicians, as well as prominent figures from the cultural and intellectual world. For his work, he has received, among other awards, the Hansel Mieth Prize, the Gold Medal of the Art Directors Club of Germany, the Lead Award of the Academy for New Visual Language, and the World Press Photo Award. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.
Beate Lakotta , born in Kassel in 1965, was an editor in the science section of the news magazine "Der Spiegel" for over ten years. There, she reported on topics related to medical ethics, psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. Since 2010, she has worked for the magazine as a crime and justice reporter. She was awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize for her 2003 reportage "Noch mal leben vor dem Tod" (Live Again Before Death), published in Der Spiegel together with Walter Schels.
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