The elusive Ĺ“uvre of the German photographer Herbert List is hard to categorize. He worked in almost every genre that photography has to offer: architecture, still life, street-photography, portraiture, documentation and cataloging. Yet he also blurred the demarcation between those fields: architectural shots seem like composed still lifes or surreal compositions, documentation of Greek sculptures or African artifacts borders on portraiture; and when capturing the classical beauty of the male physique, one does not quite know if we look at painstakingly composed arrangements or a private photo-diary,...
