Fine Print: Laser light on nude, New York City, 1978 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) In an extract from Pleine

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revelling in the opportunities the medium offered: “Black and white transcends reality by removing a very significant part of it: the color

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Fine Print: Laser light on nude, New York City, 1978 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) In an extract from PleineErich Hartmanns signature style is enigmatic, unfinished and ambiguous. He was never without a camera loaded with black and white film and a small box of extra rolls, which he used to capture what intrigued him. Hartmann began his photographic career in New York City, which would become his home for the rest of his life, and documented the people, patterns and abstract images of this city that so fascinated him. Hartmann saw pictures everywhere.