Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana the most talented and the

the most talented and the most intelligent

carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century

Subtly involved in every aspect of culture

resulting in work that plays with texture and scale

in which images of nudes and animals are interspersed with close-ups of the countless cigars he has smoked in his studio over the years

Jens Klein - The Applicants Amana the most talented and theThe 179 passport photos in this book, taken between 1948 and 2012 and compiled by German artist Jens Klein, were included in scholarship applications submitted to the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e. V., a Protestant run scholarship program founded in Germany in 1948. They show a cross section of the 8,000 or so people the Studienwerk awarded grants to during this period; as well as how the medium of photography has changed over the years: from