"Schon war’s!" (It was nice!) is the title of the recent photographic-series (from 2007-2009) by Stefan Hunstein. A book on the series has been published in German and English in december 2009 by the prestigious art publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag. The work has been exhibited at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Allgemeiner Konsumverein (Braunschweig). On february 4, 2010, the series of more then 100 photographies and the book will be presented at the Haus der Kunst (Munich). After a welcoming speech by the director of the museum, Chris Dercon, Petra Giloy-Hirtz, author and publisher of the book, will give an introduction to Hu...

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"Best museum exhibition"
(Kenneth Baker's top 5 art picks for 2008, in: San Francisco Chronicle, January 2009)

William Eggleston's early photographs were black and white. In the 1960s he began to photograph in colour and - almost single-handedly - heralded in the era of fine art colour photography. A solo show at the MoMA in 1976 made him famous. Eggleston's snapshot aesthetic and his psychologising use of colour was still unusual at the time; in an annual review, the MoMA show was even called, "The most hated show of the year." Today Eggleston enjoys a cult status among younger generations of phot...

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The fact that Parr, who is a member of the legendary photography agency Magnum, is a collector himself is not generally known. 'Parrworld' places the artist's photographs in a dialogue with his collections, revealing cross-references and connections between these. Together these collections form a cabinet of media curiosities, which simultaneously express the psyche of its creator.

"I have a very strong collecting gene, and the pages of this book are testimony to this condition. It started early. When I was very young I gathered together a museum of items such as pellets (balls of fur and bones, spat out by birds of pre...

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