Herbert List
Germany (1903—1975)Born to a coffee merchant family, he studied at Heidelberg University and started to work in the family business, taking photographs while travelling. In 1930 he met Andreas Feininger, who introduced him to the Rolleiflex and enabled him to develop his technical and artistic skills. In 1936 he left Germany for Paris, where he briefly started a collaboration with Harper’s Bazaar, but gave up fashion photography for still life compositions in the style of Metaphysical photography. He travelled around Europe, mainly Athens, Vienna and Paris. During these years he also took up drawing and was sent to Norway as a soldier in 1944, remaining there until the end of the war. After WWII he became art director of the magazine Heute and, in 1951, a contributor to Magnum, following his meeting with Robert Capa. In this period he travelled to Italy, Spain, Morocco and the Caribbean and published thematic collections of photography.
