Since the 1980s the physician Michael Schupmann compiled an exquisite photo-collection. Works of many important German photographs and of all important artistic movements in black and white photography in Western Germany after 1945 (to 2000) are represented: starting with the members of the group "fotoform," over the report photography of Barbara Klemm or Will McBride, to the documentation photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher, or the conceptual photography of Floris M. Neus ss and Andreas M ller-Pohle or Thomas Kellner. The power of the collection comes from one fact: that it is concentrated on analog black and white photography. With a choice of more than 300 examples, the book gives an exciting overview on the history of the medium in western Germany after World War II. The book accompanies the exhibition of the Schupmann Collection at the Museum im Kulturspeicher W rzburg, at the Landesmuseum f r Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, and at the Museum Bad Arolsen.