Fine Print: Wrestling boys II. Baltic Sea, Germany, 1933

Herbert List would work in almost every genre that photography has to offer: architecture, still life, street photography, portraiture, documentation and cataloguing. Documentation of Greek sculptures or African artefacts borders on portraiture; and when capturing the classical beauty of the male physique, one does not quite know if we look at painstakingly composed arrangements or a private photo-diary, shot spontaneously from the hip