Who isn't familiar with it, that irksome obligation of immortalising oneself in guest books when visiting people? Loriot's guests had an easier run of it. The master of the house would photograph them instead, always against the same backdrop, and in a variety of poses. Friends, relatives, colleagues and fellow artists posed for Vicco von Bülow, alongside a pillar and in front of a curtain. Over the years, an extensive photo gallery came into being. Loriot's ›Guestbook‹ is a personal document, an amusing panorama of society and a condensed chronicle of changing fashions.