Editorial

Lothar Schirmer and Cy Twombly Summer 2007 / Photo: Lilian Bauer

Dear Schirmer/Moselites!   My new list offers you a broad range of fine and eye-catching visual books. A sensation to the art world is the new book with recent photographs by Cy Twombly. Regarded by many to be the world’s greatest living painter and with his 80th birthday ahead on April 25th 2008, Twombly presents, to fans and foes, a new surprising body of work. Witty, playful, and sophisticated, these photographs unveil both the master artist’s eye and his unique sense of color, composition and poetic metamorphosis.

Marilyn Monroe in New York is a recent discovery from the star’s inexhaustible treasure of photographs. Published for the first time in book form in the USA, we present Ed Feingersh’s beautiful collection of Marilyn icons taken in 1955, her year of “exile in New York”; some of them are the most beautiful black-and-white photographs of Marilyn ever taken. Bettina Rheims, French star photographer in the footsteps of Helmut Newton, has established herself as the leading lady in the field of erotic photography of women. In her new book Can You Find Happiness she reveals the secrets of her trade. A new great season for Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn is ahead with two books: the small edition of his fabulous world best-selling U2&i and his stunning photo diary In Control telling the making-of of his recently released and widely acclaimed Ian Curtis movie Control.
New books by artists like Damien Hirst, Elger Esser, Axel Hütte, and Thomas Struth are accompanied by new print-runs of our best-selling classics: Candida Höfer: Libraries, Peter Lindbergh: Untitled 116, and Balthus: Time Suspended, the monograph on the great painter whose centenary will be celebrated on February 29th, 2008. Congratulations!

We hope you will enjoy our new books!

Best regards,

Lothar Schirmer
January 2008