About the publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Munich · Art & photography · Since 1948
Hirmer Verlag is an art book publisher in Munich, Germany. Max and Aenne Hirmer founded it in 1948. Its program covers painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, architecture, design, fashion, archaeology and cultural history. It publishes exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and thematic volumes, and works with many museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Project managers coordinate each book, designers design it, and partner lithography firms check image quality with proofs. The books are printed by specialist printers in Germany or Italy. The publisher also issues the magazine Fresko twice a year. In the United States it operates as Hirmer Publishers.
David Katzenstein returned to Bhutan after twenty-six years. There, he met the same three girls he had photographed in 1999, now grown women. Photography Book Spotlight