New York is the city of big dreams and constant change. Thomas Hoepker, legendary photojournalist, and former president of Magnum Photos, documents the history of the city since the early 1960s. With his images he captures the complex spirit and true face of the city in all its moods and with the people who live there. Hoepker thus creates a tribute to New York and New Yorkers. Text in English and German. AUTHOR: Thomas Hoepker, born in Munich in 1936, worked as a photographer for Münchener Illustrierte and Kristall and reported as a correspondent for stern from East Berlin and, from 1976, from New York. In 1989, Hoepker became the first German photographer to become a full member of the renowned international photography cooperative Magnum. In 1992 he became vice president of Magnum, and from 2003 to 2006 he was its president. In addition to photography, Thomas Hoepker also devoted himself to documentary film. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions as well as published in several books. SELLING POINTS: . An emotional photographic documentation of an ever-changing city from the 1960s to the present day . Thomas Hoepker is one of the most famous Magnum photographers and shows the different sides of the most famous world metropolis and is a contemporary witness and documentarian of September 11 . A fascinating compilation of the New York archive of Hoepker, who is now 87 years old, including previously unpublished images 80 colour and b/w photographs
