For a long time I asked myself why a group of young men, thinking freely and full of new ideas, in the wild years around 1968, set out to pursue such an enormously dry, otherworldly, methodically disciplined and, at first glance, completely unemotional project—so far removed from the mainstream, from the Total Photography of a Karl Pawek or a Family of Man.
Gottfried Jäger, Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being