Published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography
is an ambitious retrospective of his diverse artistic oeuvre. The book spans a half century of
photography: from Rautert's experimental beginnings as a student of Otto Steinert at the
Folkwang School of Design in Essen in the late 1960s to the methodical research of his
image-analytical photography in the mid-1970s from his freelance work as a visual storyteller
with his congenial partner Michael Holzach for ZEITmagazin to his turn away from journalism in
the early 1990s towards the long-term documentation of changes in the world of work caused by
industrial automation and his artistic theoretical image formations made while professor at
the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig between 1993 and 2008. Timm Rautert and the Lives of
Photography is the most comprehensive publication of Rautert's work to date combining
extensive photo series-some unpublished till now-with six essays and an annotated
biography.Co-published with Museum Folkwang Essen
