Thomas Hoepker Profile

Thomas Hoepker was a Gernan photographer, he took many famous and well known images, one of these images was the 9/11 photograph that he took.

This image had a massive negative response by the public and as a response to that Thomas Hoepker removed the image from public observation for 10 years. The response from people was that they assumed that the people in the photograph were relaxed and uncaring about what was happening behind them. This is not the only photography he does, Thomas Hoepker has done landscape photography and taken pictures of different cultures around the world. One of the places he has been to is Japan, he took a lot of images of their culture and way of life while he was there. Thomas Heopker was born and raised in Munich, Germany.

 

Thomas Hoepker started taking photographs when he was of the age of 16 when his grandfather gave him an old 9x12 glass plate camera, he would sell his images to his friends and family members at the time, he would develop his images in the bathroom and kitchen of his parent’s house. Thomas Hoepker studied Art History and Archaeology during his college years and photograph throughout this time to help finance the money he owed for his education. After he had finished his education he became a photographer for “Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall” and was reporting all around the world, soon to become a journalist for Stern magazine and further on from that he became a cameraman of German TV Documentaries which is how he met his first wife, Eva Windmoeller, who was a journalist. The two of them decided to relocate to New York in 1976.

 

Thomas Hoepker was mainly famous for his image of 9/11 when some people were relaxing as if nothing was happening, this was a very popular image and get a lot of negative feedback, as a result of this Thomas Hoepker removed the image from public observation for 10  years. Then he finally made it available for people to see. Another image he was famous for was the pictures he took of Muhammed Ali.