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Metamorphosis of Japan after the War (1945-1964)
In the years following the Second World War in Japan, photography played an important role in the development of a new national identity. From the shock of the atomic bomb to the country's re-emergence at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, important photographers documented the birth of a new Japanese nation. This exhibition includes 123 photographs, as well as books, magazines and exhibition catalogues featuring works from 11 leading representatives of Japanese photography of these years.
In the mid-1950s a group of photographers came to the fore who started to move away...
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Fashion room photographs from the F.C Gunldach Collection
FASHION ROOM: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE F.C. GUNDLACH COLLECTION.
Every fashion needs its room. Fashion is three-dimensional by definition: it covers the body, it forms, exposes or conceals the body, brings out certain parts of the body and makes others disappear.
Yet fashion is ephemeral and needs photography to ensure its survival. In the process, fashion's spatial dynamic is transferred to the two-dimensional plane of the photographic exposure. The perception of the original fashion room changes, and new interpretations are introduced. The real space - the street, the shop window or the catwalk - is joined by so...
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Simone Mangos
In 1998, Simone Mangos began to research the site of the former Ministerial Gardens in Berlin and subsequently the emergence of the 'Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe'. Her works explore the different stages in the memorial building process; the controversies, reactions and campaigns, which took place around them; memory and its representation.
At the Museum für Fotografie, Simone Mangos will be showing photographic work, and the ruined Kaisersaal has inspired her to reproduce a historical construction from the memorial site in life size. The installation will be based on the translation of a found document into a three dimensiona...
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Humanism in China
With 590 photographs taken by 250 different Chinese photographers, this exhibition, organized by the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, offers a wide-ranging panorama of life in modern China. At the same time, it constitutes a revealing stocktaking of Chinese documentary photography during the last 50 years.
Subdivided into four thematic areas, entitled Existence, Relation, Desire and Time, these images are presented in dense constellations. Collectively, they provide a portrait of everyday life in both rural and urban China against the backdrop of dramatic social upheaval. Behind the highly visible glamour of the economic boom curr...
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Raymond Depardon VILLES CITIES STÄDTE
An exhibition by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris and Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Opening hours: Tues-Sun 10 am - 6 pm, Thu 10 am - 10 pm
From Cairo to Rio, from Shanghai to Dubai, from Addis Ababa to New York - from twelve of the world's metropoles the French photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon brought back twelve films and a great many photographs in response to a commission by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. He chose to spend no more than three days in each city, taking along a film and a photographic camera and ten 5-minute spools of films. He is alone and he observes....
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