Dieter Blum

*January 6, 1936, Eßlingen, Germany

Dieter has been working as a freelance photographer in culture and reportage since 1964, among others for magazines such as Der Spiegel, Stern, Time and Vanity Fair. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

At the beginning of the 80s he photographed the Berliner Philharmoniker under conductor Herbert von Karajan. Since then, he has devoted a great deal of his work to music, dance and art. In addition to two illustrated volumes on the Berliner Philharmoniker (1983 under Herbert von Karajan and on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the orchestra 2007), which he accompanied over and over for 25 years, he wrote books about former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder or Karlheinz Böhm in Africa. He devoted a number of illustrated volumes to the dance photography (Vladimir Malachov, Exstasy I, II and III, Pure Dance, Dance and Eros I and II).

In the years 1992-2004 Blum was the only European photographer who photographed the worldwide Marlboro campaign.