Christophe von Hohenberg

Wookie Feet

c. 1980s

Christophe von Hohenberg is an American contemporary artist and photographer, born in 1952 and recognized for his fashion, portrait, lifestyle and documentary photography. Discovered by American Vogue, in 1979, Christophe has since worked with Interview, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, French Vogue and German Vogue, German Rolling Stone, Fortune, Art Forum and The New York Times Magazine. His critically acclaimed book, Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died was awarded the AIG Book and Photobook District News Award, in 2007, which was followed by the publication of Another Planet: New York Portraits 1976-1996, in 2014 and then, a third book, Shadows of the Gods: Mexico City. Currently in production is a fourth publication, The White Album of the Hamptons. Christophe’s work has been included in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York and May 2018 marked a solo exhibition with CFHILL Gallery at the Fotografiska Museum, in Stockholm, Sweden. Other solo exhibitions have been with the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, in Tampa, Florida, Goss-Michael Foundation, in Dallas, Texas, Alfstad & Contemporary, in Sarasota, Florida, the Amerika Haus, in Munich, Germany, the Rudolf Budja Gallery, in Salzburg, Austria and the Aretha Campbell Fine Art, in London, England, along with numerous other galleries in the United States and abroad. His photographs can be found in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and South America. He lives in New York City and Mexico City.