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Biographie de Klaus Honnef

The Author. Klaus Honnef (b. 1939), Professor of the Theory of Photography at the Kassel Art Academy, started his career as a journalist and freelance writer : until 1974 he was the director of the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster. and then for 25 years head of exhibitions at the Rhein1sches Landesmuseum in Bonn. He was one of the organizers of documenta 5 and documenta 6 in Kassel, and has been the curator of more than 500 exhibitions in Germany and abroad. He has written numerous books, the latest, in collaboration with Gabriele Honnef-Harling, being : Von K6rpern und anderen Dingen - Deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert (Of Bodies and Other Things : German Photography in the 20th Century). For TASCHEN he wrote Contemporary Art (1988), Andy Warhol (1989), and Art of the 20th Century (1998, in collaboration with Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger and Christiane Fricke). The Editor. Uta Grosenick (b. 1960) is a freelance editor based in Cologne. She has edited the following publications for TASCHEN : Art at the Turn of the Mi / fermium, 1999 (in collaboration with Burkhard Riemschneider) ; Women Artists, 2001 ; ART NOW 2002 (in collaboration with Burkhard Riemschneider) ; Büttner, 2003.