BERLIN - Bruno Gmünder , a publishing house of high-quality erotic photography books, comics, and calendars, has announced the addition of author Stephan Niederwieser as its new editor in chief. Niederwieser, the author of more than 20 books, has already created several new projects for Bruno Gmünder that PR manager Helmuth Täuber referred to as "amazing."
With his background in literature, Niederwieser feels he will be able to effectively convey a narrative through the images selected for books, taking the collections of photos to another level.
For their fall releases, Niederwieser has "planned some real scoops." He said new releases include "books from classic artists like Howard Roffman and David Vance. There will also be spectacular books from newcomers like Mark Henderson, who's fascinated by the European baroque era. His inimitable pictures of beautiful, half naked and dressed in fur men are modified into Chiaroscuro paintings.
"The photos of Exterface are generated like movies. The two young artists and directors from Paris use a written script. Their pictures get worked over: adjusted and repainted. In that way unseen, self-contained miniatures develop."
Not to mention, the publication of Greats*, pocket book-sized editions of highlights from BG's catalogue, and two collaborations with well-known gay porn houses Raging Stallion and Lucas Entertainment.
A few personal highlights include a gay retelling of Alice in Wonderland, called Down the Rabbit Hole, shot by Justin Monroe, a photographer well-known to avid magazine readers. Also, a "smaller jewel" from Spanish illustrator David Cantero, Club Life, is a collection of his internationally recognized flyers and party posters
Niederwieser commented on the shift from text to image production: "It brings me back to my roots. In the early 1980s I started with researching pictures for illustrated books in New York. At that time in the old traditional way: to seek out photo archives, announcing the subjects, getting hundreds of slides which had to be examined with a magnifying glass. I brought my selection to the publisher on foot! Sounds like the Stone Age, inconceivable today! But that's how I learned how to judge. ...Another point: Now I don't have to earn money with my writing. That allows me to be more creative-a luxury most artists can only dream of!"
But does he have a novel in the works? "Not at the moment," he said. "But I don't miss writing. I just continue to tell my stories in another [medium]."
