Moses before Moses

Stefan Moses was one of the great photographers of the Federal Republic. Germany and the Germans remained his main subject to the end of his life. Our exhibition “The Exotic Country. Photo reportages by Stefan Moses” follows his career. Prof. Dr. Christoph Stölzl, president of the Franz Liszt academy of music in Weimar and founding director of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, describes in his opening speech of the exhibition, excerpts of which we are publishing here, the career of Stefan Moses before he became the most famous photo chronicler of the Federal Republic.