The Germans represent the largest demographic group to have emigrated to the land of unlimited opportunities: every third US citizen has at least one German ancestor. Between 1608 and the present day, eight million Germans have left their home country in search of freedom, better working conditions, and a higher standard of living.
German emigration to the US continues to the present day--yet the reasons for it in the age of globalization differ from those when emigration began four hundred years ago. The Berlin photographer Gunter Klötzer visited over one hundred and twenty German emigrants to the US who had been born and raised in Germany, took pictures of them, and asked them about their reasons for leaving their home country. The essence of his project has been distilled into forty interviews that allow for highly personal glimpses of individual lives--accounts often fluctuate between rejection of and admiration for the new country. At the same time, they provide a revealing picture of the "Land of the Free" caught up between the American Dream, 9/11, the Iraq War, and an increasingly emancipated Europe.
Sixty-three brilliant portrait photos accompany the interviews to depict the German emigrants in their own personal American environments: taking stock of their situation.
Not just an exhilarating exhibition, this show is in an equally stimulating setting at the Ulm Stadthaus designed by the New York architect Richard Meier: a fascinating contemporary documentary on German-American relations in the early 21st century.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication of the same title:
256 pages, 63 portraits,
40 interviews in German and English
from Arnoldsche Art Publishers,
ISBN 978-3-89790-023-3,
DIEHL starts its “Flaneur” selection with 42 works of the Soviet photo journalist Dmitry Baltermants. Best known for his pictures of the Soviet battlefield during World War II.
During World War II, Baltermants covered major battles for Izvestia and for the Red Army newspaper Na Razgrom Vraga. He fought and photographe...
Le 24 mars 1976, le peuple argentin subit un coup d’état militaire. C’est le début d’une ère de répression sanglante, où quelque 30 000 personnes disparaissent et près de 500 bébés sont volés. Mais s’ouvre également une période d’ultralibéralisme d&ea...
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Coastline featuring emerging Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao’s award-winning series Coastline that focuses on the continuous 18,000 kilometres of China’s coastline. The series does not merely capture the seaside landscape of these coastal areas, but also witnesses the changes o...
Du dépouillement des clichés de Catherine Lambermont se dégage une poésie narrative. Ses images composent une suite d’instants d’observation libre. Son travail réhabilite le continuum qui caractérise chaque frontière. La frontière est le lieu du lien. Entre le corps et l’es...
Eric Rondepierre a choisi de montrer au sein d'un travail multiforme, certaines des oeuvres qui ont partie liée au cinéma, depuis ses débuts en 1992. Sur un parcours de vingt ans, 56 pièces ont été prélevées dans dix séries : Excédents, Annonces, Précis...
Simone Nieweg is a photographer of gardens and landscapes. Her work, as it has manifested itself over the past thirty years, knows no other interest. At the same time, a certain serenity hovers over her pictures. In them, nature seems entirely focused on itself. One immediately notices that human beings are absent. The allure of colors and shapes...
« Je ne peux m’empêcher, atteste Gérard Uféras, d’associer la pratique de l’Art à la notion d’amour et de partage ». (extrait de son livre Etats de grâce, éditions du Fantom)
«Egyptian pack» evokes many associations - here are both Petersburgers favorite topic of werewolves (see the movie of E. Yufit «Corpsmen werewolves») and references to the Perm animal style.
Also we can recall British film «The Wicker Man» (1973) with its ritual procession of the man-beasts, ho...
Puisque l'instant sublime de la prise de vue ne ressemble à rien d'autre,
laissons le vivre : l'appareil n'est pas une cage.
l'oiseau pris en photo continue son vol.
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