Christoph Schifferli, born in Zurich in 1950, is a longtime collector of postwar and contemporary photography and artist's books of the 1960s and 1970s. He started to collect film stills several years ago after buying anonymous still photographs from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
David Campany is a writer, curator and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London. His books include Art and Photography (Phaidon 2003), Photography and Cinema (Reaktion 2008), ANONYMES: l'amerique sand nom- photographies et cinema (Steidl/Le Bal, 2010) and Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (Afterall, MIT 2011). His essays have appeared in numerous books. He writes for Aperture, Frieze, Photoworks, Source, The Oxford Art Journal, and PA magazine.
