Gaechter+Clahsen
Bettina Clahsen (born 1941) studied photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Peter Gaechter (born 1939) trained in gravure printing at Conzett+Huber, completed his preparatory course at Zurich's Kunstgewerbeschule and studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 1984 they founded the Gaechter+Clahsen photographic studio in Zurich together.
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Zurich-based photographers Peter Gaechter and Bettina Clahsen document hairstyles from Switzerland's upscale salons, tracing hairstyle trends from the 1970s to the 1990s. The book collects their photographs along with texts by Bettina Clahsen and Swiss art historian and journalist Joerg Scheller.
