Fine Print: Laurel over the Eyes. Athens, Greece, 1937 Paper size:4.5 x 5.8 in (11.5 x 14.8 cm)

Fine Print: Laurel over the Eyes. Athens, Greece, 1937 Paper size:4.5 x 5.8 in (11.5 x 14.8 cm)Born in 1903 into a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, Germany, Herbert Lists work combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. He began an apprenticeship at a Heidelberg coffee dealer in 1921 while studying literature and art history at Heidelberg University. While traveling for the coffee business between 192428, the young List began to take photographs, almost without any pretensions to art. List developed

the Parrs vividly and affectionately document cobbled streets

where one’s duty to the city was weighed against private fears

and people experiencing homelessness

tears blended with laughter

Yakuza (members of traditional organized crime groups in Japan

a father and son ride a bicycle along a picturesque avenue of trees in Provence

The largest seaborne attack in history

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some of them in installations specially designed by the artist

The result

In May of 1961

that was just to show off