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Grady Harp wrote on 10/30/2011:

Hans Fahrmeyer has been the chief photographer for the Santa Fe Opera and as such he is easily able to move the direction of his figurative photographs into the grand versus the real setting. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, and other major national and international news and fashion magazines. In other words, his work deserves our attention as it come form a long experience with working with the human form.

In this monograph he focuses on male nudes, posing them in 'operatic' poses, historic figure poses, and in situations that demonstrate the full spectrum of interaction between men. His technique results in a erotically charged collection of images that never fall into the raw category. He seems to be aiming at finding that plane where abstraction and raw emotion meet and then takes that plane, slides it back and forth and comes p with some very original thoughts. These images are sensuous yet very refined. Perhaps this is due tot he fact that Fahrmeyer processes and prints all his own photographs: e is especially gifted at creating the duotone format that contributes a feeling of museum quality work to his photography.

But the title LUI & LUI (French for 'him and him') does pervade these images and it is that visual and sensual dialogue that makes his book succeed. Of note he has also created a book BETWEEN MEN & WOMEN that uses a similar approach to composition of his ideas. He is certainly a photographer of the human form who deserves the status he has achieved in his field.

Grady Harp