Of the. Current to me. Yet so stop and nice legs make it on its legs and open to quake open. Yes like before. Thats no no. Look which. Could spread to. This day. Its clear. To me id like to invite a firefight to join me on stage all divided to 5 who argue for. H. P. Not. That i wasnt prepared for that question but. I feel incredibly fortunate i never would have thought that things would take off like this when i turn 60 well maybe not take off but things keep Getting Better and better each day but im full of find it. Can open up all. You know. All you gotta do is act naturally the so right. Which good bad belly is sold to the wheat box dope no tomorrow. Ok. Chup i need to just get an idea and then i have to go through with it no matter what i insist sometimes it doesnt work out a toll he doesnt want to or she doesnt want to work that doesnt work but you have to be incredibly patient like that painter said i dont know who it was anymore the big one confronts he said you need the patience of an ox that had a big impact on me as orcs you cant just give up and say youve had enough of those monies got much market come up sometimes you can get so fed up with things you dont want to keep going but you have to pick yourself up and move on you have to keep creating even if theres no feedback and its a nonstarter. You never go hope. Oh i was. Gone maybe high on the money. You got. There has. No harm. You know as much by the. Way that went to a Stylist School last year. So now he knows everything. They said that it was about. To close. Comfy level 12 many fashion photographers want to become artists pushed that hardly ever goes well with emotions in the end theyre still just fashion photography. For the writer is one of the few people who went from art real pure art to fashion and thats why his work is so convincing and thats why its unmistakable that he has a distinct find for a style. Of the 1st you. Know you can go. There and. This is this is typical for voters style this is him and his purest form. Of the hold and its so simple head down bottom up to stripes. It might just be an ad for stockings to but you can instantly recognize his signature you know just going to be. Nice to the. You know a little bit too you know. Ok for fear of him. 40 years ago i started out as an illustrator at the tigers and so i got magazine it used to produce more issues than it does now. That i not go to small polaroid and took pictures to use as templates. Like of this class. So then i had all these little pictures and i copied them from my drawings. Thats for photography itself i was too scared of doing it because my hands tremble. And i always have. I couldnt take pictures without a flash because they would always come out blurry. Vision. And when we 1st started working together we werent using digital cameras we were still using analog film his 1st job for vogue was with the stylist honest ozzie bobby airy and the model if i had to go for that vita i took 2 or 3 photos and then he simply got up and left. Them to me for. The. Day and too fast and they said ok vita can we get to work now selfish and he said things like what do you mean im already done and that you have to take a 100 pictures they said and he said 3 are enough. In the fashion world that was pretty extreme. But feel me he movie thinking its my surroundings have always been very important to me even though i never go have a look at where im doing the shooting beforehand so i just go and let things begin. Oh yes and the same rule applies here dont discuss things in advance no discussions. Directing directing thats what the guys love the good ones too well actually everyone does so. I can just see the one reason why he became so successful. Was the fashion photographer with all its skillful artificiality needed to be reinvented. 3 she needed artists to reimagine fashion. Now and. We have a huge problem with beauty especially when it comes to serious art. We have delegated the concept of beauty and the way we handle it to advertising to such an extent that no serious artist dares dealing with it anymore i foolishly for me for me to me vote up 5 is like a reincarnation from earlier days when beauty was still taken seriously. It is joy in playing with forms and colors like celebrating a young life just reaching its cause. Because the lappets even if you might appear hesitant at times about his art is very life affirming. The conditions of extreme love and spill. Over to show she. Will have a fringe issue with this issue some people. Will call to sneak into the. Office see. If some. Features. Thats when most needs we have thats when to pin take us about critiquing then you should be thorough enough to feel my feet off the. O. P. s p. S. P. Small thing or to. Feel. Something else influence i think also tell you all those things. Its an. Escape scheme its. By delphi for you originally did an apprenticeship as a window decorator right yes that if you know what that is that it was and i think it was yes and shelf thousands. I can imagine it was a bad breaking job but im sure it was also interesting did you learn anything new. I learnt the most from the saleswomen. All used to wear yellow aprons it was part of their uniform thats how you can do that anymore i like the way they looked all the same they had all sorts of intrigues it was Like Elementary School for life. Really intrigues i said yes i believe they were the head decorator was about as old as i am now yeah version was a steep staircase leading out steps. That half past 6 all the saleswomen would walk up those stairs in that aprons no pants back then and he would always stand at the bottom of the stairs gnashing his teeth. Does it for love that story sorry for bringing it up but you did ask walks. Off to some silk long wait to see after he does. So when you know yourself. So go ahead students in the other. Classic. Coffee suited. Ah lets. Get these kill club. Just look. I was commissioned by the film podium cinema to design movie posters. It was so much fun. I was completely free to experiment. And you see there wasnt much money in it but it was great to walk past my posters hanging on the street. To pull out. To see. The only thing i needed was material to sketch. I started taking pictures of the people who came to visit me in my little room. To sit on my bed and tell me what was needed while i worked there but its not saying. This is a page from a scrap book thats going to be published soon all the scrap books turned out very thick. Just magicians who go. Oh you. Sure. You know this. Is so. Far. Off. So many. Used to love sketching with a pencil. Then. That brought me to the attention of John Christophe the curator of the museum of art in lieu sun at the time. He said he was doing an exhibition called transformer. Ready stands for he asked me to just wander about and explore the topic. I saw carlo in the library of the school of applied arts i was completely and raptured by his beauty. Of. It began all of it as if he were in the very 1st series of carlow your for the transformer exhibition by John Christophe a man in the sound you can watch how he becomes this remarkable black and white bouquet of flowers. You know. Ever since the fiftys and sixtys until today theres been an intense debate about identity who am i. The vault and his work in the 1970 s. Vault apply for also asked this question. Even today it still seems quite relevant. Who am i what does it mean to be gay how can i lead a gay life. It was a time when the 1st steps were being made to publicly address this issue. In germany in the seventys it was still forbidden to be openly gay if seen. It was not a moment when you can look so young i cant even quite recall where i 1st saw this picture. And might actually have been in his studio. I could immediately sense that i needed this picture. In that i was going through a deep crisis with my male image at the time it was more about my role as a man and less about my sexual preferences. I could have gone. Home at 1st of ita 5 i didnt want to sell me the picture. Of. All the he said i wouldnt get it for less than 5000. 00 francs. Because nobody in the world would ever see it again so i should at least pay for that. So i paid him 200. 00 francs a month for 2 years and frankly more so. As i always told myself a book has to stand out on a bookshelf and still shoulder everyone has to feel the urge to pick it up and ask whats not to do with them or with. My fish that night. When i went back to new york to ask me to take his book with me and show it to andy warhol. Ok i promised id try. My 2nd day in new york and i went over and told him i was from zurich and had something that might interest and. He hesitated a moment. But then he came. He was very nervous walters nervous too but warhol seems 10 times more fidgety. He looked through the book with. Great great great great pictures script great great great great great. Friend to the wall pictures more pictures but not. And i was thinking really andy warhol just said that i couldnt believe it. Too early but of course the book was published and there was no reaction whatsoever none. And i kept thinking to myself this cant be happening 10 years and nothing to show for it. It was a one off and ferguson does you have to remember it was the 1980 s. When things were more uptight back down or there were these dolls little boys were allowed to play with these can dollops male barbie dolls. But in the 1980 s. He couldnt put his hand down his pants lipstick was perhaps that was still too gay. And there were some things there that could clearly be seen as pornographic. Even today. But then theres this Italian Beach picture i think that says mother. See how to get you so she took it all really well my mother really got into others and she said it reminded her of the olden days other mothers were different. My mother was really cool about it she never worried about what i was up to she was open to everything oh i remember i once said i wanted to be famous she said it was more important to stay healthy she was right in a way. Oh. Was. He. Was. Just a dick from very closely to the hopeless being fighters aesthetics didnt fit at all with what was being shown at the time what was hip so to speak with of the work i could recognize his personal taste or his spontaneity his technical imperfection and all of that appealed to me i found his book very lively and i was so enthused by it that i immediately decided i wanted to do an exhibition with this photographer political floor and else that although this was called this was the poster he designed. This is his writing this thing and its going it all went very quickly from munich to zurich and back again as lawrence of those who wish to learn a little bit only took 3 or 4 weeks and then he flew in and i met him this is in the whole garden and munich this photo sums up his whole personality of. Was. Then i started writing and realized that i couldnt i wasnt a writer i became desperate again. Then all the muses in the world cant help you its blitz and then suddenly i remembered that i had a box full of tapes in the basement. For the tapes as we go along to the forge was your good tape hed been taping phone conversations with his friends for years and if he liked a particular sentence he jotted it down his play vi to be less like a collage or a crazy collage i can still remember a couple of scenes that i liked very much the music would like this one a boy in a Civil Servants office whos the official stamp like or. Think. All of. This is that which i was for was of course totally absurd of sort of theatre but very very funny and the audience went along with it wonderfully. Its about a need to be ops it was never my intention to write one play off to another i was just curious if i could write something that people would actually come to see but some show just this movie like the comb. Feeley out not to buy me as many people said my 1st book of photos was terrible everything completely overexposed this is something one person told me it was simply a catastrophe from a photographic point of view i know somebody else said i still had a lot to learn so i really wanted to learn so i bought a big 1000 want to make my pictures look professional of dummy december and thats how my little photo studio of sorts came to be so what it does a decent photo studio apart from. Spinning thats me almost in gimme back then in high school in the eightys show he life was boring. I wondered if there was anything else beyond like zurich. So we go to see voter he was like zurichs andy warhol. Recently any woman as you can see really what i did and i thought so he and it worked thanks to him i went to new york and to travel around for a few years i had a good time as a model. So. Vulgar is an emotional person creative pleasant to work with. Does move to evoke no prejudices of each of all he cared about were the people themselves before. Scott on the mountains it wasnt about who you were where you were from i gave you more what your incarnations were about and you. He never had to ask because all you could tell them is pictures who people truly were. The naked ones wanted to be naked thats for sure. Khloe or. Most of us. This is me rowing. And finding new models was the hardest part i couldnt use the old ones from the 1st book well that was done and over with it was a phase. In my life is like a rocket the dunns up and then the next period. Next. Was one survivor he brought me my 1st models. At that Time Department stores used to be open late one day a week and these boys would hang out there with their pimps mopeds. Used to. It when i walked by it felt like. Then he came along and said no problem and brought them all over to me and there was always a lot going on on thursday evenings. 3. Of his place was sparsely furnished i fainted and took pictures there he used a simple camera. As soon as he got behind us camera he was like a sniper he knew exactly what he was aiming at and when to pull the trigger. This fall for you claw he was gay everyone knew that then wed make jokes about it. You never crossed the line though if he had word would have spread and he would have been branded for life but nothing ever happened. Does king is all that went on for 2 years until one day Zhang Christophe called and said youve got to make submission next year 1906 at the with these faces. I still had a lot of work to do. About the same time in 1905 paris had given me a studio. Because. Back then he was still looking for new faces he always liked to actually i so he made me his assistant and i combed through paris with him so this is my job was to approach young people he found interesting and then ask them if maybe they wanted to have a famous photographer take their picture. Book so i grabbed my backpack and we went to different parts of town every day hed approach them theyd say no problem i took my pictures every day so we went through all of paris searched it from top to bottom far and wide i was the happiest person in the world it was like a miracle. Miracle its miracle. Sensible the exhibition wasnt bosler 1906 i already had my drivers license that we drove over and it was such a big event outside in the showcase as you can see is pictures on display we were so excited about that he said you know what the gong. I went with my mother i was 17. Its. He was sharing an exhibition with bruce weber. Of course bruce weber was the star of the eightys and i was just a nobody from switzerland thats how i felt he was professional not like me to. Me anyway i was there at the opening and the only thing i remember was that he told his scout to go over and approach go stuff go and came on to the king so he went over and would like to go starting new york for a shooting. Stuff was in 7th heaven of course and i just stood there like a drowned rat you could see the difference i was nothing and he was everything he needs. Now to go. After the big exhibition of the basil ive had quite enough of all the photos of all the people and of photography all together. Of. Tarp so i decided to create still lives just for myself. So there was nothing and nobody to disturb me. And i could just paint for days in peace for me and here. Seems to be done it far safer by another phase had ended it really was a case of disappearing off the radar a month nobody knew who i was anymore and it was better that way i knew of. The t. V. On the left the cats behind me and the canvas in front of me i drew one painted picture after picture like an artist it was bliss. For almost all of those who some of. Which are. Recorded. Over receipt of those positions. I mean clips you have to look at all 3 components of his work to really understand him. The pictures the drawings and not to be underestimated his videos the performances. Supposed to help that also focus they were a continuation of his theater and also took up aspects of his photography as a clavichord vault that gets me. Consists of all these elements and you cant separate them and all. The school today involved his amazement at the world stems from the fact that he moved to the city from humble circumstances. It was in the late 1960 s. When many possibilities were just opening up and lots was changing. Its not safe and i thought it was dope formed. He still carries the wonder of a country boy who is now in the big city but who hasnt forgotten how to be amazed. When the books welcome aboard came out everyone said it was such a great comeback but it didnt feel that way to me it was just a new phase. The day agency is booked most of the idea behind this book was to present his photos to the general public again or beautiful to bring him back from obscurity thank you its all a very bad economy people didnt know who voted 54 was any more small that one nice side effect was that he started taking pictures again of years. My favorite picture is from his book. As a as it does. When i saw it this one i just thought oh wow is that me. How do i make that one point he told me i was a muse really with him you really have to being a muse. To. Work and develop that i have to please people know baltar as someone who takes pictures of beautiful boys but he is also good at taking pictures of women. A certain lively for volatile distinguishes this book has a very beautiful lack of seriousness. 8 because. The book was very well received and greatly contributed to his breakthrough. Its very unusual for someone over 60 to get involved in the world of vogue and such. But thanks to his endless enthusiasm greatly enjoyed. Going into see us malls. Well originally wanted to check out sang clue as the shooting location seemed to be afoot 1st we stopped at dior a store i used to walk by when i had my studio in paris. And i was starstruck avenue montane dior Marlena Dietrich up stairs. When we got to san clue and i saw all these expensive shoes and the gravel and the trees and the model with the dogs and i wasnt happy at all please i asked if we could go back so we went back to deal to the stairwell and everything was perfect perfect. That was the 3rd high level job i had. Now after their walk after that happened with vogue i was approached by an agency in america to me its the best agency i could imagine can come from without an agent i wouldnt be where i am now id still be at the targets and so i guess. Having an agency i thought id have to work like a mule at the age of 60. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah ok. Ok. Thats nice. Thats good. Thats wonderful. Yeah. I have very. Good run run run run run run run run. He was funded by taking fuel you do a lot of articles for big magazines for free its just what you do to polish your name. So for example days it was a freebie one day of working till you dropped. Oh man you pay to. See. Ali farka everybody always asks me why arent you in paris or london or tokyo its all about it so perfect to come back here to be like cinderella and start all over again down and focus on something new on their own to farm and to see chalfont was to constantly. Sheba how nice now dont plan to do anything and yeah i thought most i might do a bit more cleaning i havent done any keating again today im really surprised at what still comes my way it may sound modest but its true its been shy and i hope i still have a few good ideas that would be even better. So. The for the ball. Would be the same. To. The food. In. Europe transformed. To focus on europes summer series. 30 years ago the 1st cracks it appeared in the iron curtain. What happened to the dreams and secure us about extraordinary times. Our journey begins in poland where we meet Nobel Peace Prize winner and life of oneself. In 30 minutes called d w. Our. Economies cant function properly even in times of demand without skilled workers. With inadequate housing. With food shortages. Scarcity is increasingly making things difficult for companies and entire economy whats causing it and what can be done to combat the problem. Made in germany in 90 minutes on d w. 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