{"product_id":"robert-lebeck-1968","title":"Robert Lebeck: 1968","description":"This book presents the diverse photo series Robert Lebeck made in  1968, which form an alternative view of the year when social conflict  and personal rebellion against authoritarian traditions found their  passionate and often violent expression. Upheaval, protest, persever - ance and failure-themes that are not always explored in retrospective  mythicizing views of 1968-are clearly expressed in Lebeck's photos,  taken in locations from New York to Bogotá and Wolfsburg. Whether  dealing with \"Divorced Women,\" Rudi Dutschke in Prague, Robert  Kennedy's funeral or Joseph Beuys at documenta, contemporary  history encounters the integrity of photo reportage in Lebeck's work.\n\n\"The year of the student protests took place without me,\" Lebeck  recalls of 1968 in his autobiography. \"When the barricades were burn - ing in Paris, I was working in Florida on a series about two murdered  co-eds; when students began protesting in front of the Springer  Building, I was photographing the christening of Hildegard Knef's baby;  and when Russian troops marched into Prague, I was accompanying  the pope's visit to Bogotá.\" A closer examination of Lebeck's contact  sheets, prints and reportages made during this epoch-making year on  behalf of  Stern , then one of Germany's highest-circulation magazines,  and presented in this book, reveal how Lebeck's photos, despite his  own assessment, capture the social changes of the time.\n\n'[Robert Lebeck is] a photographer who really wanted to be an  ethnologist, but swapped books and university for a camera and  lucrative commissions for the world's best magazines.' -Harald Willenbrock","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664684224548,"sku":"9783958294196","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958294196.jpg?v=1777360204","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/robert-lebeck-1968","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}