Fine Print: Ionic capitals and foot of a statue. Eleusis, Greece, 1937 Vintage

Fine Print: Ionic capitals and foot of a statue. Eleusis, Greece, 1937 VintageBorn 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

with red dirt fields of peanuts and cotton flying by

Working in New York City’s Central Park for over four years

he was invited to join Bobby and his wife in their convertible where – lying down to avoid ruining the picture for the other photographers – he was able to take this remarkable image

Its pages include unpublished behind-the-scenes material

steadily compiling a lyrical

) that beckon for the soul that is still nailed through holes in both feet

This contact sheet contains The Beatles on the film set of ‘A Hard Days Night’

I am one of those people who love doing such big stories

five photographers – Paolo Pellegrin

He went on to shoot his career-making project on the remote villages of Greece’s myriad islands – all of this work made in black and white

Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq

One hot summer afternoon in 1963