Although F.C. Gundlach’s work is mainly connected to fashion photography, there are other fields of the media that are retrospectively reflected in particular in his extensive work. Most notably the genre of portrait photography deserves mentioning.
F.C. Gundlach has always been interested in the image of man and therefore it’s not surprising that portrait photography plays a central role in all of his creative periods. At the beginning of his career he pointedly worked for the film industry. For film distributions like Union Film, Gloria, RKO and others he produced still images to hang up in movie theatres and send out as press material. Among other things, a number of star autograph cards originated, that were collected by fans.
By order of different magazines, but mainly of Film und Frau, he photographed film and theatre actors, creative artists and prominent contemporaries on a regular basis in the 1950s. Even during fashion photography productions striking portraits of the models came into existence along the way. In the 1980s Gundlach portrayed in particular visual artists such as Martin Kippenberger, whose works he exhibited in his gallery and collected himself.