Günter Blum Books

Established critics place the photographic works of Günter Blum on the same level as contemporary works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, or Lucien Clergue. Blum's exceptional artistic examination of the possibilities and ideas of the medium of black-and-white photography has made his work popular among collectors on the international art market and museum exhibitors. The female nude has always been Blum's main motif. Making a decisive use of composition, gestures, light, and intention, he pushes his work to the very borders of erotic provocation. Blum's artistic work and his creativity bear witness to an intensity and to a passion that are capable of arising anew with every single subject.

Gunter Blum loved powerful women. Women who like a challenge. And women who like to challenge. In spite of Impossible odds, the lithe, improbably perfect bodies of his subjects seem to hold their own whether pitted against the vast chains, the gigantic cogs of brutal machines, or the inorganic symbols of the alien but strangely familiar environments in which these strong women play out their defiant fantasies.