Welcome Aboard

Walter Pfeiffer is back! After his legendary successes of the 1970s and 1980s, he returns with Welcome Aboard, Photographs 1980-2000. The book is, at the same time, a monograph on Pfeiffer's photographic work and an artist's book, a photo-novel all of its own. Pfeiffer takes you on a long trip from suburban bliss to the horse race at Ascot, from wind-swept beaches to majestic mountain tops. Pfeiffer knows our dreams and adroitly plays with them. In his still lives, landscapes, and portraits of beautiful boys and mischievious women, Pfeiffer celebrates his quest for beauty and glamour with sophistication, irony, and wit. Pfeiffer leads you in a world between reality and reverie, snapshot and mise-en-scene. It's a photo album from Arcadia. Pfeiffer creates intelligent and classic images imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images are an encyclopedia of desire.