Published by Nieswand in 1992, Ralph Quinke’s *Jazz + more* begins with jazz but refuses to remain within the familiar iconography of the genre. Its 140 pages bring together photographs of jazz musicians alongside people who make their living in pop music, literature, photography, and film. The book therefore treats music not as an isolated subject, but as part of a wider cultural field populated by performers, makers, and public personalities.

Quinke’s approach is notably unsentimental. Rather than reinforcing the aura traditionally attached to the musician and the instrument, he places greater emphasis on the comic, awkward, or otherwise human aspects of his subjects. The resulting portraits are less concerned with heroic stage presence than with the shifting relationship between a public role and the individual who occupies it. That change of emphasis gives the book its particular tone: observant, irreverent, and attentive to the possibilities of portraiture beyond reverence.

For collectors, *Jazz + more* deserves attention as a document of photographic thinking about cultural figures at the beginning of the 1990s. Its subject is broad, but its principle is precise: to unsettle the conventions through which artists are usually presented. The German-language hardcover, issued under ISBN 9783926048523, is substantial in scale at approximately 33 × 21.6 cm, allowing the work to function as a considered book of portraits rather than a simple catalogue of names. Quinke’s combination of musical culture, cross-disciplinary range, and humorous deflation gives the volume a distinctive place within the tradition of artist photography.