© Jürgen Vollmer
EAST Hotel Hamburg Simon-von-Utrecht-Strasse 31 20359 Hamburg Allemagne
EAST Hotel Hamburg, Edel books and hi-life Agentur für Veranstaltungen present the first and sole photo exhibition of legendary photographer Jürgen Vollmer.
The exhibition presents mainly never sold single copies, that show Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Madonna amongst others. All photographs are for sale uniquely and as single exponat.
Further highlight are the six displayed photographs on loan, showing the Beatles. Those photographs by Jürgen Vollmer have never been exhibited before.
Jürgen Vollmer is a german photographer, who was born on July 11th, 1939 in Hamburg, who has spent almost his entire professional life abroad. In the sixties he lived in Paris, in the seventies and eighties in New York, in the early nineties in Los Angeles and afterwards again in Paris. He moved back to Hamburg in 2000.
1961, as a student of photography, he photographed in Hamburg the then still unkown Beatles. « Jürgen Vollmer was the first photographer to capture the beauty and the spirit of the Beatles » (John Lennon, 1975). Vollmer is also responsible for the trademark of the Beatles, their mop top haircut. « Jürgen cut John’s and my hair, and that was the beginning of the Beatle haircut »(Paul McCartney, 2007).
Vollmer took a lot of travel photos and was often the set photographer for french and american films, directed by Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Alain Resnais and Roland Emmerich. He photographed for instance Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Johnny Depp, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. « Vollmer’s portraits of female movie stars exude often a mysterious sensuality » (“Rolling Stone Germany“, 2004).
Vollmer’s most important photo books: “Nureyev in Paris“ (1975), “African Roots“ (1979), “Rock’n’Roll Times“ (1983), “From Hamburg to Hollywood“ (1997), “The Beatles in Hamburg“ (2004), “On Filmsets and Other Locations“ (2009). “Vollmer’s photos are realer than the flesh, realer than death“ (William S. Burroughs in hin foreword to Vollmer’s photo book “Sex Appeal“, 1976).
In 2013, Vollmer’s autobiography was published in Germany: « How I cut John Lennons’s hair, run away from Romy Schneider and made Catherine Deneuve laugh.»