Josef Hoflehner (born 1955) is an
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
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photographer
A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographe ...
known for his dramatic black-and-white landscape and subtle color images. He is also known for his "Jet Airliner" series—mostly
high-key photographs of people on
Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of
St. Maarten
Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the north ...
, overshadowed by low-flying passenger planes taking off and landing at
Princess Juliana International Airport. He was voted Nature Photographer of the Year 2007,
and named as one of "Austria's 10 Best Contemporary Artists" in 2014.
Photobooks
* ''Southern Ocean'' (2002)
* ''Frozen History'' (2003)
* ''Gegendum'' (2004)
* ''Unleashed'' (2005)
* ''Yemen'' (2006)
* ''Iceland'' (2006)
* ''Unleashed Two'' (2007)
* ''Big Island'' (2008)
* ''Li River'' (2008)
* ''Nine 9'' (2008)
* ''China'' (2009)
* ''Jet Airliner.'' Wels, Austria: Most, 2009. .
* ''Unleashed 3'' (2010)
* ''ZNZ: Zanzibar'' (2011)
* ''Jet Airliner: the Complete Works.'' Wels, Austria: Most, 2012. .
* ''Retrospective 1975 - 2015 (2015 teNeues)
Exhibitions
*''Frozen History,'' Atlas Gallery, London, 2006
*''Sublime,'' Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010
References
External links
Josef Hoflehner's Official WebsiteJosef Hoflehner BBC Online Exhibition
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1955 births
Living people
21st-century Austrian photographers
Photography in Iceland
Nature photographers