Peter Gaechter & Bettina Clahsen: Fünf Finger Föhn Frisur - (Paperback)

About the Book

Zurich-based photographers Gaechter and Clahsen document hairstyles from Switzerland's upscale salons, tracing hairstyle trends from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Book Synopsis

Zurich-based photographers Peter Gaechter (born 1939) and Bettina Clahsen (born 1941) 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.

Review Quotes

In 1984, Bettina Clahsen and Peter Gaechter founded the Gaechter+Clahsen photographic studio in Zürich, Switzerland. One of their most frequently shot subjects was the creations of hairdresser Elsässer Pour Dames and her "Cold War Kids" cuts, "five-finger" blow-drys and "Old Hollywood" coiffures. Collected here in the sleek, refined Fünf Finger Föhn Frisur, Gaechter and Clahsen's photographs document the transformation of hairstyle trends in the late 20th-century, which seem to reflect the blasé liberalism of the time.-- "TANK Magazine"