The Visionary Lens of Rico Puhlmann Born in the transformative atmosphere of Berlin in 1934, Richard Georg Willi Puhlmann—known to the world by his evocative moniker, Rico Puhlmann—emerged as a defining voice in the golden age of fashion photography. His journey into the visual arts began not with a camera, but through the dramatic lens of performance; as a child actor appearing in Front Theatre in 1942, he developed an early, profoun…