“La Bohème”. The Staging of Artists in photography of the 19th and 20th century In his 1851 novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, the French author Henri Murger created the image of the artist as an outsider who, in the midst of the middle class era, lived in romantic poverty. Bohemian life, viewed through rose-tinted glasses and elevated to undying popularity by Puccini’s opera, constituted in Murger’s view a transitional stage: “Bohemia is the first stage in artistic life; it is the preface to the Academy, the hospital, or the Morgue.” The term became synonymous with the 19t...

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The precocious Budapest teenager who would eventually become known to the world as Robert Capa did not aspire to be a photographer. He wanted to be a writer – a reporter and a novelist." (Richard Whelan) Capa's evolution into a press photographer and war reporter (all the while entertaining the idea of filmmaking) was fundamentally determined by history, as well as by factors like the accelerated technical developments in photography, the changes in the printed picture press in the 1920s as a result of the influence of motion pictures, as well as the increasingly refined techniques and strategies of photographers.

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Anton Corbijn's retrospective exhibition affords a glimpse into the Dutch photographer's work spanning over thirty years from early video clips to the latest star portraits. Although Corbijn experimented in several disciplines that are part of modern visual culture — as can be seen in the exhibition in the form of short films, video clips, concert-stage, book, and album-cover design — his basic medium of expression, nevertheless, was and still remains photography.

Corbijn was born in 1955 on the Dutch island of Strijen whose isolation from cultural and contemporary music, the amplification of sound and nearness o...

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