to concentrate increasingly on cultural-historical and documentary projects, such as the exploration of the "visual world" of such figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Theodor Fontane creating series like In Goethe's Footsteps, With Goethe in Switzerland, Me Too in Arcadia/Goethe's Italian Journeys, Fontane's Walks Through Mark Brandenburg. An extensive study of the phenomena of European Necropoles followed. His works since the 1980s deal with the capability of visualizing time and transience. Projects like Second Sight, Timescape and The Perennial Eye, assembled under the main title Eye on Time, document the change of the world's surface during time. In contrast to the individual picture pairs of the Second Sight project, Timescape comprises photographic sequences made over many years. The project is still ongoing and currently consists of more than 300 series of different objects. The photographs already give a clear indication of how much the people, the places, the squares, the apartments, and even nature are in a state of change. What does not change, however, is the geographical vantage point of each photographic series. Awards Kodak Photobook Prize for Auf Goethes Spuren (In Goethe’s Footsteps), Necropolis, APO/Berlin 1966–1969 and Land der Griechen (Land of the Greeks). 1979 Schönstes Buch der Schweiz for Mit Goethe in der Schweiz (With Goethe in Switzerland) 1969 German Design Prize 1979 Otto Steinert Prize 1981 Villa Massimo Prize 2002 Ordre des Arts et Lettres Exhibitions Solo exhibitions (selected) 1969 Berlin, Galerie Mikro 1974 Hamburg, Kunsthalle, The World of Caspar David Friedrich 1975 Hanover, Galerie Spectrum 1975 Lissabon, German Institute 1976 Berlin, Bielefeld, Göttingen, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Munich, Necropolis 1977 Berlin, Landesbildstelle, Pictures from Germany 1968–1975 1979 Zurich, Helmhaus, In Goethe’s Footsteps 1980 Düsseldorf, Goethe-Museum, In Goethe’s Footsteps 1981 Houston/Texas, Benteler Galleries 1987 Carmel/California, Photography West Gallery 1989–1995 Kiel, Harburg, Rendsburg, Itzehoe, Buxtehude, Lüneburg, Flensburg, Neumünster, Ahrensburg, Preetz, Rostock and Schwerin, Me too in Arcadia 1992 Potsdam, Kulturhaus, Theodor Fontane 1995 Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Eye on Time 1996 Berlin, Willy Brandt Haus 1996 Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Eye on Time 1998 Berlin, Galerie Eva Poll, A Library for the Eye 1998 Berlin, Willy Brandt Haus, Reviewing an Era 1999 Greimharting, A Library for the Eye 1999 Palermo, Goethe-Institut, Goethe in Arcadia, Et me in Italia 2001 Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, Cologne and Bruxelles, WindEye 2001 Cologne, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Timescape, a Palimpsest and The Sixties in vintage prints 2001 Kunsthalle Erfurt, WindEye, Timescape