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Herlinde Koelbl - Photographs 1976-2009
Asked why she didn’t photograph mountains or landscapes, Herlinde Koelbl once replied: “People are unpredictable.” Perhaps this statement gives an indication of what makes the work of this great German art photographer so special. She wants to grasp people, understand them, find out something about how they live, what they choose to surround themselves with, how they would like to appear and what they really are, what elates them and what casts them down. Her images are intense experiences because they are the product of a genuine interest in and curiosity about her fellow human beings, and her respect for the lives of ot...
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Roswitha Hecke - Secret Views
The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin is showing a multi-faceted retrospective of the work of the photographer Roswitha Hecke. Her "secret views" of foreign cities and countries, of unfamiliar milieus and familiar faces, reflect her "secret view" of the art of photography: affection for the subjects, a sense of the right angle, an ability to share feelings of amazement or amusement, and an unobtrusive proximity.
For Roswitha Hecke, who was born in Hamburg in 1944, photography is both a profession and a calling. She began her apprenticeship as a photographer at the age of 18. Three years later, having completed her training, she met the theatric...
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Retrospective Eugène Atget
On the 150th anniversary of the birth of the French photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) a grand retrospective of his works will open at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin on 28 September 2007. The exhibition was mounted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A selection of 350 works from Atget's extensive oeuvre will be on display.
Between 1897 and 1927 Atget, like no other photographer, captured the old Paris in his pictures. His shots show the city in its various facets: narrow lanes and courtyards in the historic city centre with its old buildings, of which some were soon to be demolished, magnificent palaces ...
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Cindy Sherman à Berlin
From June 15 until September 17, 2007 the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin will be presenting the major Cindy Sherman retrospective arranged by the Jeu de Paume in Paris. The exhibition comprises works produced by the artist between 1975 and 2005.
The American artist Cindy Sherman is one of the leading representatives of staged photography. In her photographs she uses her body as a vehicle for creating all sorts of roles and staging masquerades. By combining the roles of film director, main protagonist and photographer, she blurs the strict dividing lines between posing and viewing, between objec...
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Ré Soupault (1901-1996)
The photographer Ré Soupault was at the heart of classical Modernism in both Berlin and Paris. Born Meta Erna Niemeyer in Bublitz, Pomerania, in 1901, Ré Soupault was one of the most important female photographers of the 20th century. After training at the Bauhaus in Weimar (1921-1925) under Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Georg Muche, Oskar Schlemmer, Paul Klee and others, she became part of the European avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923/24 she worked with the Swedish avant-garde film-maker Viking Eggeling on his film "Diagonal Symphony".
In 1925 she made the acquaintance of Man Ray and Fer...
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