Influenced by the Fluxus and Happening Art of the 1970s, Kraus and Hößle have created an interactive work of art with the IMAGO Camera that lures the viewer out of their passive corner and makes them part of the artistic process themselves. A unique photographic experience that combines art, craftsmanship, science and spectacular self-staging. And a medium whose importance is still growing today, because its session character is at odds with the ego hegemony of the digitalized world.
In 1972, the IMAGO Camera was inaugurated in Munich and presented in numerous exhibitions until 1978, including Photokina Cologne, Haus der Kunst Munich, World Exhibition of Photography Nuremberg.

The inventors of the IMAGO Camera, physicist Werner Kraus (r.) and artist Erhard Hößle (l.), Haus der Kunst, Munich 1974

Werner Kraus sets up the lens of the IMAGO Camera, in the foreground the IMAGOgram from Kraus and Hößle
© Annegret Kohlmayer
The IMAGO Camera has been in numerous exhibitions, including in: Haus der Kunst Munich, World Exhibition of Photography Nuremberg, Photokina Cologne, Pinakothek der Moderne, Neue Sammlung Munich, ZKM Karlsruhe, Rotterdam, Shanghai. In 2025, following the death of Susanna Kraus, the IMAGO Camera is available to be acquired for the first time since its development. More information and inquiries via kraus@imagocamera.com
| Ilford Switzerland | HARMAN Technology UK, Mr. David Peter Jones, Ex CEO of Ilford Swiss & UK | Dr. Gisela Kaiser, Munich | Annegret Kohlmayer, Vienna – Photokina/Messe, Cologne | Die Photoautomaten, Berlin | Lomographische Gesellschaft Wien | Thomas Schenck (SM Filmdienst) | Florian Hufnagel (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) | Peter Weibel (ZKM Karlsruhe) | Dieter Rehm (Akademie der Künste) | Andreas Velten, Berlin | Floris Neusüß, Kassel, Stefan und Lisa Boerger (Delicut) | Christoph Kardinal Schönborn, Vienna | Monat der Fotografie Wien, Thomas Liecek – Technisches Museum Wien | Gottfried und Gerda Haberer | Die Wiener & Münchner Truppe der Anfangsstunde, Elena Capra, Florian Peljak und Jakob Berr | Severin Matusek | Christoph Santner von RealMakers, Vienna | Erika Borbély-Hansen, Frederic Thywissen, Berlin | Yasmine Benhadj-Djilali/YBDD, Architektur Kunstraum | Vertrieb Fotopapier DPP Hans O.Mahn GmbH, Maco Photoproducts | Miriam Bers, Bers Art Consulting, Go Art Berlin |