Walter Pfeiffer: In Good Company surveys more than six decades of work by the Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer, born in 1946. The book follows his career from photographs of Zurich’s underground scene in the 1970s to later fashion editorials and commercial commissions. It brings together portraits, nudes, landscapes, still lifes, abstract images, and fashion photographs, treating them as parts of the same practice rather than as separate categories.
Pfeiffer’s work is defined by an informal approach to image-making. He often uses direct flash, accepts accidents and imperfections, and allows staged situations to retain the appearance of spontaneity. His models include friends, lovers, acquaintances, and people encountered outside professional casting systems. This approach gives many of the photographs an immediate quality while also drawing attention to the ways images construct identity, desire, and appearance.
The book presents Pfeiffer’s interest in the relationship between artifice and ordinary life. A fashion image may sit beside a private portrait, a landscape, or a simple still life without any clear distinction in status. The sequence reflects his resistance to academic divisions between fine art, fashion, and vernacular photography. Across these forms, he examines how visual style shapes perceptions of the body, the everyday, and the glamorous.
In Good Company follows Pfeiffer through periods of travel and experimentation in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the renewed international attention he received from the 2000s onward. The selection shows how his methods remained consistent while his contexts changed. By combining personal photographs with editorial and commercial work, the volume presents Pfeiffer as a photographer who anticipated the fluid image culture of the present, in which private expression, fashion, advertising, and art frequently overlap.
Walter Pfeiffer: In Good Company
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Walter Pfeiffer
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
Publication Date:
September 2026
Print Length: 144 pages
Language: English
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