Industrial Era. Photographs 1845–2010 - Exhibition at the Münchner Stadtmuseum / Photography Collection

The exhibition Industrial Era traces the development of industrial photography from its origins to the present. 200 original photographs from the extensive photography and graphics/paintings collections of the Münchner Stadtmuseum are presented for the first time ever. The exhibition is supplemented with loans from private collections in Munich and Vienna as well as a selection of the most beautiful and interesting anthologies on industrial photography from the lib...

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For nearly five decades the photographer team of Bernd and Hilla Becher were working on an extensive global inventory of industrial architecture. They documented factory buildings, gas storage tanks, power distributors, shaft towers, and steel furnaces that are not part of the canon of art history but rather anonymous, functional architecture abandoned and fallen into disrepair as a result of urbanistic or economic development. Their constructs were soon recognized by art history as “anonymous sculptures” (Karl Ruhrberg). They serve to direct attention to the structural beauty of industrial utili...

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The exhibition Industrial Era traces the development of industrial photography from its origins to the present. 200 original photographs from the extensive photography and graphics/paintings collections of the Münchner Stadtmuseum are presented for the first time ever. The exhibition is supplemented with loans from private collections in Munich and Vienna as well as a selection of the most beautiful and interesting anthologies on industrial photography from the library of the Münchner Stadtmuseum’s photography collection.

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As early as the 1960’s, Roger Ballen became acquainted with the names of well-known photographers like André Kertész, Bruce Davidson and Henri Cartier-Bresson through his mother Adrienne who was working for the New York branch of the Magnum photo agency at the time. He did, however, initially study psychology at the University of Berkley in California. In 1973, he set out on a journey around the world that would last several years. His photographs from that time period were published in the 1979 book Boyhood and reflected the influence of street photography. They illustrate Roger Ballen’s interest in the critical ...

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