Year: 1953
Material: Gelatin silver print
Signature: Signed and dated on the recto
Edition: 15/100
Frame: No
Total size including edges: 40,5 x 30,5 cm
Condition: Excellent

Herbert Tobias (Dessau,1924 – Hamburg,1982) was a German photographer who first became well known for his fashion photography during the 1950s. Besides his portrait studies and his photographs of Russia during World War II, he masterfully captured the German homosexual scene of the post-war period. He was one of the first artists in Germany to die from AIDS at the beginning of the outbreak. The picture was taken in Paris in 1953 and shows a friend, Claude. Tobias had followed his American lover Dick, who was studying art, to the banks of the Seine. Paris offered gays far more freedom than Germany, and Tobias was fascinated. He frequently depicted intimate, tender moments between men, paying meticulous attention to the setting.