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Footballer Uwe Seeler hanging his head after losing the World Cup, revolutionary Fidel Castro relaxing with a cigar in the Cuban mountains, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt intimately at chess with his wife Loki: capturing moments that tell a story and become history themselves are a stroke of luck for any photographer. Sven Simon (1941-1980) has succeeded in doing just that. Unobtrusive, unpretentious, but always focused, the eldest son of publisher Axel Springer went in search of the special picture with his camera and, because his name was like his father's, with a pseudonym to be himself.
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, this illustrated book commemorates the award-winning journalist, but also invites readers to rediscover him. About him, even colleagues raved: "He is not a photographer, he is a sculptor.".