Hirmer Verlag

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is a close friend of the photographer Benjamin Katz who has accompanied the artist with his camera for more than thirty years. The pictures published in this volume capture Gerhard Richter s multifaceted (...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat's self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to some 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because (...)