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German photographer Herbert List official. Account run by the estate of the artist. For more info visit our website or @magnumphotos for a biography.

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Multidisciplinary artist and designer Luca Crippa (1922–2002) photographed in Milan by Herbert List, c. 1958

Fallen Statue of Via Broletto (1948)

In 1949, Crippa began a career as a costume and set designer for television and theater.

In 1949, Crippa began a career as a costume and set designer for television and theater.

In 1949, Crippa began a career as a costume and set designer for television and theater.

As I learn more about Crippa, I will post updates here.

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: Herbert List
Born: October 7, 1903, Hamburg, Germany
(7 October 1903 – 4 April 1975) was a German photographer, who worked for magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life, and was associated with Magnum Photos. His austere, classically posed black-and-white
compositions, particularly his homoerotic
male nudes, taken in Italy and Greece being influential in modern photography and contemporary fashion photography.

@herbert_list
#herbertlist #hamburg #germany #germanphotographer #germanphotographers

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Had this great photo shoot with my friend @kevczako last year in Joshua Tree National Park. I’ve been trying to seek out more unique locations that offer a bit of adventure. I’d discovered the Wall Street Mill trail. It leads to an abandoned mine. Along the way you pass ruins of the old Wonderland Ranch and all these crazy abandoned 1920s cars. Kevin had wanted to try something with an old, Southwest vibe. This location seemed like a fit. We kept wardrobe simple and rough like the environment and shot 35mm b&w neg stock as well as digital. The area was rugged and dusty, so we leaned into that. Kevin was down for it and an awesome collaborator. I was extremely happy with the results. We shot for several hours, but as seems to happen, almost all of the best shots came in that final hour before sunset and in the fleeting few minutes of fading twilight.

Have you hiked this trail in Joshua Tree? Who can pick out the film shots?
#joshuatreenationalpark #blackandwhite #bnw_photography #bnwsouls #bnwmood

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EXPOSITION — Chez @magnumphotos, un flirt photographique entre @herbert_list et @ziedbromdhane

Un article de @thibault_bissirier à lire sur thesteidz.com

#magnumphoto #herbertlist #ziedbenromdhane #photo #photographer

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Presenting Signature Drop 005: Herbert List X Zied Ben Romdhane, now LIVE ✨⁠
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Inspired by the exhibition Under the Same Sun, currently on view at the Magnum Gallery in Paris, Signature Drop 005 presents three pairings of photographs by @herbert_list and @ziedbromdhane, available as 16 x 20” archival inkjet prints.⁠
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Taken almost 90 years apart, these images unite two visions of the Mediterranean: List in 1930s Italy and Greece during his exile from Germany, and Ben Romdhane in present-day Tunisia. Side by side, the work is a conversation evoking metaphors of place and identity.⁠
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Each work is hand-signed by the Herbert List Estate and Ben Romdhane, and accompanied by a poem written by Ben Romdhane for the occasion of the exhibition.⁠
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This edition is available to collect until September 10 at midnight EDT, exclusively from the Magnum Store.⁠
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🔗 Discover the Drop at the link in the @magnumphotos bio.⁠

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German-Greek Encounter, Naxos, by Herbert List, 1937

c/o @herbert_list

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Currently on view at Johanna Breede Photo Kunst is Elective Affinities, a group exhibition brin Currently on view at Johanna Breede Photo Kunst is Elective Affinities, a group exhibition bringing together works by 24 photographers in carefully composed photographic pairings.

Inspired by Goethe’s idea of “elective affinities” — unexpected connections that emerge with an almost natural sense of recognition — the exhibition places photographs by artists from different generations, countries and photographic backgrounds alongside one another.

Through these diptychs, subtle relationships begin to appear: similar gestures, forms, light, landscapes, bodies and moods. Some of the artists never met, yet their photographs seem to enter into a quiet dialogue across time and distance.

Featuring works by Kathleen Alisch, Nomi Baumgartl, Sibylle Bergemann, Mariya Bilyan, Lillian Birnbaum, René Groebli, Jens Knigge, Koichiro Kurita, Machiko Kurita, Robert Lebeck, Herbert List, Isa Marcelli, Stefan Moses, Ulrike Ottinger, Marek Pozniak, Sheila Rock, Max Scheler, Songwen Sun-von Berg, Yuriko Takagi, Ayako Takaishi, Miriam Tölke, Donata Wenders, Wim Wenders and Kurt Wyss.

📅 4 July – 23 October 2026
📍 Johanna Breede Photo Kunst, Fasanenstraße 68, 10719 Berlin
🕐 Tue–Fri 11:00–17:00 | Sat 11:00–14:00

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#JohannaBreede
#BerlinPhotography #PhotographyExhibitions #PhotographyGallery
#ArtInBerlin

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Johanna Breede Photo Kunst is a Berlin gallery dedicated to contemporary and historic photography, presenting works by both established and emerging photographers.

Currently on view is Elective Affinities, a group exhibition bringing together 24 photographers whose works are paired in carefully composed diptychs.

The exhibition explores unexpected visual connections between photographs — artists from different generations, countries and photographic traditions are brought into dialogue through similarities in form, light, gesture and atmosphere.

Featuring works by Kathleen Alisch, Nomi Baumgartl, Sibylle Bergemann, Mariya Bilyan, Lillian Birnbaum, René Groebli, Jens Knigge, Koichiro Kurita, Machiko Kurita, Robert Lebeck, Herbert List, Isa Marcelli, Stefan Moses, Ulrike Ottinger, Marek Pozniak, Sheila Rock, Max Scheler, Songwen Sun-von Berg, Yuriko Takagi, Ayako Takaishi, Miriam Tölke, Donata Wenders, Wim Wenders and Kurt Wyss.

📅 4 July – 23 October 2026
📍 Johanna Breede Photo Kunst, Fasanenstraße 68, 10719 Berlin
🕐 Tue–Fri 11:00–17:00 | Sat 11:00–14:00

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#JohannaBreede
#BerlinPhotography
#PhotographyExhibitions
#PhotographyGallery
#ArtInBerlin

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Like the ‘Panoptikum’ project, in which List documented the surreal, sometimes eerie waxworks of the post-war era, the ‘Ski Carnival’ feature is also a short, self-contained report.

The photograph ‘Carnival on ski: Cow in snow’ was taken as part of a spontaneous photo reportage on the traditional ski carnival in Upper Bavaria. Herbert List, who was already a member of the renowned Magnum Photos agency at the time, captured the whimsical winter festivities in a series of photographs. The figure appears isolated and dreamlike against the white, featureless snow.
This surreal and poetic black-and-white photograph is one of his magical post-war images.

© HERBERT LIST ‚Skifasching‘, Ruhpolding 1957

on view at our current show
*ELECTIVE AFFINITIES*
with works by
KATHLEEN ALISCH • NOMI BAUMGARTL • SIBYLLE BERGEMANN • MARIYA BILYAN • LILLIAN BIRNBAUM • RENÉ GROEBLI • JENS KNIGGE • KOICHIRO KURITA • MACHIKO KURITA • ROBERT LEBECK • HERBERT LIST • ISA MARCELLI • STEFAN MOSES • ULRIKE OTTINGER • MAREK POZNIAK • SHEILA ROCK • MAX SCHELER • SONGWEN SUN-VON BERG • YURIKO TAKAGI • AYAKO TAKAISHI • MIRIAM TÖLKE • DONATA WENDERS • WIM WENDERS • KURT WYSS

#herbertlist #herbertlistphotography #magnum #skifashing #bw

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A small glimpse into our current group exhibition „Elective Affinities“. Why not pop in and have a look?

© FRANCESO DE MOLFETTA ‚Cocktail Party 2018, Collage

© HERBERT LIST ‚Skifasching‘, Ruhpolding 1957

© ISA MARCELLI ‚Couple‘, 2012

© GEMMA PEPPER ‚Many a Good Yarn was Told‘, 2025, Collage

on view at our current show
*ELECTIVE AFFINITIES*
with works by
KATHLEEN ALISCH • NOMI BAUMGARTL • SIBYLLE BERGEMANN • MARIYA BILYAN • LILLIAN BIRNBAUM • RENÉ GROEBLI • JENS KNIGGE • KOICHIRO KURITA • MACHIKO KURITA • ROBERT LEBECK • HERBERT LIST • ISA MARCELLI • STEFAN MOSES • ULRIKE OTTINGER • MAREK POZNIAK • SHEILA ROCK • MAX SCHELER • SONGWEN SUN-VON BERG • YURIKO TAKAGI • AYAKO TAKAISHI • MIRIAM TÖLKE • DONATA WENDERS • WIM WENDERS • KURT WYSS

#isamarcelli #herbertlist #gemmapepper #francescodemolfetta #electiveaffinities

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The life-size wax figures at ‘Präscher’s Panoptikum’ in Vienna’s Prater fascinated Herbert List. Präscher’s Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater was a famous waxworks and cabinet of curiosities, which opened in 1871 and was completely destroyed by fire in April 1945 towards the end of the Second World War. In 1944, Herbert List captured the wax figures ‘The waltz composers Johann Strauss and Joseph Lanner are being repaired’ at Hermann Präuscher’s Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater whilst the characters’ costumes are soaked in moth repellent at regular intervals. They stand there, waiting for something to happen.
Similarly, Stefan Moses portrays the two ushers – the security staff at the Federal Parliament building in Bonn.

©️ Herbert List „The waltz composers Johann Strauss and Joseph Lanner are being repaired“ (Time and again, the characters’ costumes have to be soaked in moth repellent) from Herbert List Panoptikum, 1944,
Gelatin silver print, vintage

foto: stefan moses ‚Saaldiener‘ Bonn 1964, aus der Serie ‚DEUTSCHE‘, Life Time Print, Gelatin Silver Print / Courtesy @jb_photokunst

at ’SILENT AFFINITIES’
on display until October 2026

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#grossechaleur

Si vous ne le saviez pas, notez que @magnumphotos c'est aussi une galerie dans le 11ème arrondissement de Paris !

On y (re)découvre en ce moment les oeuvres d' @herbert_list et @ziedbromdhane , mis en regard sur le thème des rives ensoleillées de la Méditerranée.

De quoi s'évader à moindre frais ;)

"Under the Same Sun"
Jusqu'au 12 septembre 2026
(Fermeture estivale du 15 au 31 août inclus)

Galerie Magnum
2 impasse Delaunay 75011 Paris
Accès libre et gratuit

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