Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana using a large-format camera to

using a large-format camera to take photographs of residential buildings

thanks to its methodology this book opens up a new perspective on the city

in which images of nudes and animals are interspersed with close-ups of the countless cigars he has smoked in his studio over the years

Spanish-born

Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana using a large-format camera toThe 179 passport photos in this book, taken between 1948 and 2012 and compiled by German artist Jens Klein, were included in scholarship applications submitted to the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e. V., a Protestant run scholarship program founded in Germany in 1948. They show a cross section of the 8,000 or so people the Studienwerk awarded grants to during this period; as well as how the medium of photography has changed over the years: from