Afterword by Wim Wenders
More than 270 black-and-white photographs of Nobel Prize Winners
such as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Roy J.
Glauber, James Watson or Jimmy Carter, each accompanied by a short
biography.
Peter Badge was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1974, and began his
career in photography as a free-lance artist in 1993. In 1995, he
moved to Berlin to study Art History and has been living and
working there ever since. He initially worked as a free-lance
photographer for different magazines, but soon started to develop
his own ideas and projects.
Choosing portraiture as his main focus, Badge concentrated on noted
personalities such as artists and actors, musicians and
photographers, and in his latest works on `Icons of the Economy?
and `Philanthropists?. He also did a series on the electronic music
pioneer Oskar Sala and a documentary on Marius Müller-Westernhagen
(in cooperation with Art Cologne and the National Music Center in
Washington, D.C.).
Badge embarked on a series of photographs of Nobel Laureates in
2000, commissioned by a number of renowned organizations like the
Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of American History,
the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Deutsche
Museum as well as his partners, the Council for Lindau Nobel
Laureate Meetings and the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners
Meetings at Lake Constance. This project turned out to be a
long-term, ongoing mission which has taken him all over the world
in order to capture an image of every living Nobel Laureate.
Peter Badge has published several books; his work is represented in
numerous private and public collections and has been printed in
newspapers and magazines.
Reviews on the exhibition presented at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History; Washington Post, May 4, 2001:
"...most notably an array of striking, large-scale, black-and-white
photographs of Nobel laureates..." "...candid and revealing..."
"...the main focus is on scientists, people who are warmer and
fuzzier than you might think..."
"Nobel Faces offers an intimate and compelling look at famous
honourees as well as lesser-known recipients." (Anticancer Research
28: 2008) "This book deserves to be widely promoted … .[A]
fascinating volume." (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, August 2008)
"This book is a must for everybody interested in scientific
discovery and history of science." (Biotechnology Journal, 2008, 3)
"...most notably an array of striking, large-scale, black-and-white
photographs of Nobel laureates...candid and revealing...the main
focus is on scientists, people who are warmer and fuzzier than you
might think..." (Reviews on the exhibition presented at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; Washington Post,
May 4, 2001)
"Außer Peter Badge gibt es vielleicht keinen zweiten Menschen, der
so viele Nobelpreisträger getroffen hat. Er hat diese einmalige
Gelegenheit ergriffen und ein einzigartiges Fotodokument
geschaffen. "
dpa
Nov. 07
"Das Buch kann, nicht zuletzt auch angesichts des freundlichen
Preises, für naturwissenschaftlich interessierte Schüler, Lehrer
und Laien empfohlen werden."
Praxis der Naturwissenschaften
Chemie in der Schule
November 2007
"Dieser interessante und informative Bildband - lädt zum Schmökern
ein. ... Diese Biographiensammlung ist außerordentlich lesenswert;
der Leser erfährt nicht nur vieles über spannende wissenschaftliche
Erkentnisse, vor allem aber kann man erahnen, wie die seltene
Spezies "Nobelpreisträger" denkt und tickt."
Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung
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