Thomas Hoepker  (German, 1936) 

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Thomas Hoepker Biography
1956 - 1959   Art History and Archaeology, Goettingen/Munich, Germany
1960 - 1963   Worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall, reporting from all over the world
1964   Joined Stern magazine as a photo-reporter
1964   Magnum began to distribute Hoepker's archive photographs
1968   Kulturpreis, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie
1972   Worked as cameraman and producer of documentary films for German television
1974   Collaborated with his wife, the journalist Eva Windmoeller, first in East Germany and then in New York, where they moved to work as correspondents for Stern in 1976
1978 - 1981   Director of photography for the American edition of Geo
1987 - 1989   Worked as art director for Stern in Hamburg
1989   Member of Magnum Photos
1999   German ministry of foreign aid, 1st prize for documentary Death in a Cornfield
2003 - 2006   President of Magnum Photos
  Lives in New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2007   Retrospective at Kunsthalle Hamburg and C/O Gallery Berlin
2006   Photographien 1955-2005 - Photomuseum, Munich, Germany
2004   Vintage Show, PaceMacgill Gallery, New York, NY
1995   Retrospective - Claus Tebbe Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1994   The Maya - Kunsthalle Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1985 - 1987   Retrospective, 25 cities in Germany
1976   Rizzoli Gallery, New York and Rizzoli Gallery, Washington D.C.
1965   Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Literature
2005   Thomas Hoepker, Photographien 1955-2005, Schirmer & Mosel, Germany
1998   Return of the Maya: Guatemala. A Tale of Survival, Henry Holt, USA
1991   Land of Enchantment, New Mexico, Philip-Morris books, Germany
1989   HA Schult, Fetisch Auto, Germany
1988   Rome, Hofmann & Campe, Germany
1987   New Yorker: 50 unusual portraits, Stemmle, Schaffhausen, Germany
1986   HA Schult, New York ist Berlin, Germany
1986   Amerika: History of the discovery from Florida to Canada, Germany
1985   Leben in der DDR. Life in East Germany, Sternbuch, Germany
1985   Ansichten.Fotos von 1960 bis 1985, Braus, Heidelberg, Germany
1984   Der Wahn vom Weltreich: Germany’s former Colonies, Sternbuch, Germany
1984   Now! Überdosis New York/ HA Schult., Germany
1983   Die New York-Story, GEO Buch, Germany
1983   Thomas Höpker (I Grandi Fotografi), Rizzoli, Italy
1978   Vienna, Time/Life books, Holland
1977   Heinz Mack, Expedition in künstliche Gärten. Art in Desert and Ice, Sternbuch, Germany
1976   Berliner Wände, C. Hanser, Germany
1974   Die Iren und ihre Lieder, (Ireland and its songs), Germany
1967   Horst Janssen, artist’s portraits, Galerie Brockstedt, Germany
1963   Yatun papa. Father of the Indians. Dr. Theodor Binder, Kosmos, Germany
1963   Lebendiges Kiel, Presseamt der Stadt Kiel, Germany
1960   Finnland, Terra Magica, Germany
1957   Jugend in dieser Zeit, Steingrüben, Germany