Born in 1938 in Pulsnitz near Dresden, Klaus Staeck is one of Germany's most prominent graphic artists. Renowned for his political posters, Stack received the Gustav Heinemann Citizen Award in 1996 and was president of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 2006 to 2015. Steidl has produced Staeck's posters throughout his career and published many of his books, including Ohne Auftrag (2000), Frohe Zukunft (2004), Pornografie (2005) and Sand fürs Getriebe (2018). Born in 1950 in Göttingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl founded his publishing house and screen-printing workshop for graphic art and posters in 1968. Today Steidl publishes the largest worldwide program of contemporary photobooks and an ambitious German literature list. He furthermore conceives and curates international exhibitions including those of Robert Frank, Orhan Pamuk and Karl Lagerfeld. In 2020 Steidl received the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize at the Sony World Photography Awards and the Gutenberg Prize from the International Gutenberg Society in Mainz.