Cover: "Kindskopf" ("Head of a Child"), photography by Gottfried Helnwein
He increasingly used photography, a medium that had accompanied his artistic work from the beginning. Initially employed for documentary purposes, it developed dynamics of its own. While in his paintings, Helnwein showed an unparalleled photographic sophistication to render his artistic concepts as realistically as possible, his photographic works used often minuscle changes in light and camera setting to merge the different realities of the visable and invisable. ...

To inaugurate the new exhibition space, which has to be one of the most dramatic in the city, Gosselin chose a powerful show of black-and-white photos by the Viennese-born German artist Gottfried Helnwein. Helnwein's work is everything that Annie Leibovitz's, shown last spring at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is not. While both shoot celebrities - Helnwein's subjects include Keith Richards, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, William S.Burroughs, and an extremly wasted Andy Warhol - Helnwein's work is concentrated on the Psychological rather than on the gimmicky and the theatrical. ...

Taschen is quick to spot a trend: Pierre et Gilles (of Mark Almond record covers fame) or the artist of the perpetual scream Gottfried Helnwein (Norman Mailer is a fan) are both the subjects of recent books. ...