"One Hundred": Photo book celebrating the 100th birthday of the Swiss illustrated magazine
One hundred portraits of one hundred Swiss personalities, described by one hundred authors: This is the content of «Hundert,» the official anniversary book published by Schweizer Illustrierte to mark its 100th anniversary.
The personalities were photographed by Marco Grob, a portrait photographer who now lives and works in New York. There is hardly a world-famous personality who has not stood in front of Marco Grob's Hasselblad camera, according to a Ringier release on Tuesday. His images regularly grace the covers of major publications such as Time or New York Times Magazine.
In recent months, Grob has portrayed one hundred celebrities exclusively for Schweizer Illustrierte. The results are extraordinary, unique and impressive photographs. Grob is, as he himself says, "obsessed with reading the human face," and you can see that in his pictures, Ringier continues. According to Grob, "Every face is like a kind of code - you just have to know how to read it."
Each person in Marco Grob's portrait pictures is described in the book by an author - writers, artists, athletes, federal councilors. From a very personal point of view. And in surprising combinations. The result is a book about the diversity of Switzerland. Or as publisher Michael Ringier describes it: "It's a book about life."
"One Hundred" will be available in bookstores on December 13.
Format 255 x 310 mm, 160 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-280-05467-3, subscription price 49 francs (until 31.1.2012), regular price 69 francs (from 1.2.2012)
