Herlinde Koelbl

Hair and the intimate contact with hair accompany people from birth to death, it is always part of our very personal sensory world. In her most recent work, Hair, Herlinde Koelbl succeeds in creating an associative study of this essential identity trait. In a wonderful, subjective photo essay she erases the superficiality of this physical statement: hair becomes a protective shield, a boundary of shame, it is enticement, seduction, or threat or it becomes dead material mixed into soapsuds. With her talent for precise observation of social processes-already seen in bestsellers Spuren der Macht, Das deutsche Wohnzimmer, and J?dische Portr?ts-this new project, on which she spent over six years on four continents, sends us on a provocative, intimate tour of human emotions. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2028-1)