Josef Heinrich Darchinger (1925-2013) started working as a freelance photojournalist in 1952. Darchinger’s photographs began to regularly appear in reputable German print media starting in the mid-1960s. In his years as a photographer for Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, Darchinger had a formative influence on the magazines’ national news coverage of Bonn. He also presented his work at exhibitions and in collections of photographic portraits—for instance of Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt, Richard von Weizsäcker, or Heinrich Böll. Darchinger received numerous awards, among which was the prestigious Erich Salomon Award from the German Photographic Association.

Klaus Honnef è professore onorario di teoria della fotografia presso l’Accademia d’arte di Kassel. È stato uno degli organizzatori di documenta 5 e documenta 6 a Kassel, e ha curato oltre 500 mostre in Germania e all’estero. Ha scritto numerosi libri tra cui, editi da TASCHEN, Contemporary Art (1988), Andy Warhol (1989) e Pop Art (2004).

In 1977, Frank Darchinger began his career as a photojournalist, while also assisting his father, Josef Heinrich Darchinger, with the classifying and updating of his legendarily vast and efficient photographic archive. It was through his endeavors that his father’s work has become accessible to the general public. Today Frank Darchinger works as a freelance photographer in Bonn.