Volker Hinz carried a camera for most of his working life. Beginning at Sven Simon’s agency in Bonn and moving in 1974 to the magazine stern, he spent the following decades producing reportage and portraits that shaped how postwar Germany pictured its public figures. “Hello. Again.” gathers that work in a single volume, and it was a project Hinz himself helped set in motion before his death in 2019. The book appears from Hartmann Books in 2021, in German and English, at 192 pages with 232 illustrations, 115 in black and white and 117 in color.

The familiar faces are here: Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, Franz Beckenbauer and Muhammad Ali, Madonna and Keith Haring, Günter Grass and Karl Lagerfeld. But the book is not a greatest-hits album. Its structure moves between the well-known assignments and material that never fit the magazine frame—photographs made in the New York nightclub AREA, still lifes, and small impressions caught while traveling. Set beside the portraits, these quieter pictures sharpen the argument Hinz made in his own words: “The photographer must not be a bore. There are enough boring pictures already.”

An introduction by Henriette Väth-Hinz opens the volume, with texts by David Burnett, Ulrich Rüter, and Nina Venus. Claas Möller designed the book, which is bound in linen with foil-stamping and a tipped-in image—a format that treats the pictures as objects worth holding rather than content to be scrolled. The bilingual edition makes the material available to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

For a collector, the appeal lies less in any claim of rarity than in the completeness of the edit and the circumstances of its making. This is a comprehensive overview of a photographer’s archive, assembled with his participation, and it documents a period of German photojournalism whose working conditions no longer exist. Hinz’s images entered a shared visual memory; this book shows how deliberately they were made.