“Like Scheherazade I have woven many stories from my life and
photography into something like a coherent narrative of the
times I found myself in”, says Lisl Steiner, one of the most
unusual personalities in the history of photojournalism. She is a
world traveller, she sketches, she is a poet, muse to some. At
the age of 88 she became a YouTube hit with more than
400000 hits: Society is Kaput & Other Truths From an Ageless
Spirit. In this book Lisl Steiner gathers her engaging
photographs in a kind of retrospective, pictures of Armstrong,
Bernstein, Borges, Carter, Castro, Casals, Davis, Gulda,
Eisenhower, Ellington, JFK, Mailer, Neruda, Niemayer, Nixon,
Pele, B. B. King and Martin Luther King, or Kissinger in
conversation with Beckenbauer in the bathtub. Her drawings
and her life story complement the photographs. Lisl Steiner’s
account of her life is colourful to the maximum. In one word:
EXTRAORDINARY.
