"Nobel Laureates in Portraits"-for this comprehensive project German photographer Peter Badge
has been traveling the world since 2000. More than 400 encounters have now provided him with
incomparable insight into the worlds of those who "have conferred the greatest benefit on
mankind"-as Alfred Nobel described it in his last will and testament. This book is however
much more than the mere "making of" of a long-term photographic undertaking. Ingenious
Encounters. World Tour to Nobel Laureates reflects on the personalities achievements and lives
of the laureates from a unique perspective both unusual and fascinating. Badge's impressive
accounts of his experiences have been compiled and penned by Sandra Zarrinbal to create a
captivating book that defies categorization-as authentic as a diary as informative as a work
of popular science as thrilling as an adventure documentary as touching as a bildungsroman
as amusing as a celebrity biography and as poetic as Nobel himself preferred to approach the
world.
