As collector Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and vintage stalls for the higher a part of three a long time for snapshots, he started to note a working theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of pictures by nameless photographers with an unusually excessive variety of portraits of ladies posing in bushes. Swiss newspaper Züricher Tagesanzeiger requested, “What are all of them doing up there?” And German paper Der Spiegel posited that the arbor-climbing is perhaps a “forgotten in style sport.” Regardless of the cause, the thriller is almost as enjoyable because the pictures.
A hardcover version of Girls in Timber from Hatje Cantz, printed in German and English, follows two titles printed in 2016 and 2017 that commemorate these quirky pictures. Discover your copy on the writer’s web site.
