Night Pictures

pictures by OLIVIER ZAHM with a portfolio by NIC TENWIGGENHORN German photographer Nic Tenwiggenhorn has been taking black-and-white pictures of artists since the early ’70s. His portraits of the avant-garde art scene, like those published here, capture a time when artists incarnated integrity, intellectual resistance, solitude, narcissism, and political opposition. All images by Nic Tenwiggenhorn, taken from the catalogue “Der Fotograf Nic Tenwiggenhorn,” published by Schirmer/Mosel, 2016, copyright ADAGP, Paris, 2017