New York – Sometime before the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague closed at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 13, 2011, a thief walked up to a sensuous image of a female nude, looked around to make sure no one was watching, cut the photograph out of its frame, and boldly walked out of the museum.

The next morning, the museum r...

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A group exhibition mainly curated from its own collection, displaying more than 40 photographers and their perspectives on mostly female nude art. Selected classics are supplemented with, in some cases, never before exhibited contemporary works of Blaise Reutersward, Nadav Kander, or Ralph Mecke.

The kaleidoscopic exhibition stretches from classi...

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The oldest known image of the camera obscura principle (1545), the original camera belonging to painter George Hendrik Breitner, daguerreotypes over 150 years old: Leiden University's photographic collection is unique in many ways. It is both the oldest and the largest museological photography collection in the country, telling the whole story of the emergence and development of photography. It...

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František Drtikol (1883–1961) is considered to be the first Czech photographer enjoying international fame. Anna Fárová’s legendary exhibit in Prague in 1972 led to the rediscovery of his briefly forgotten work. This elaborate, illustrated volume is devoted to the nude portraits, one of the focal points in Dritkol’s oeuvre. Art Nouveau and Symbolism were s...

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La représentation du nu désigne une forme d'art qui essaie de recréer une image du corps humain magnifié, idéalisé. A ceci il convient de préciser qu'en matière de nu et de sa représentation, la transgression de la morale n'est jamais loin ; le nu se balade de plus en plus souvent sans pudeur, en chair et à poil au-delà...

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From Surrealism and other avant-garde experimentation to realism and classic photo reportage, Czech photographers have long played a key role in all areas of photography and continue to do so to this day.

This exhibition is the first in Germany to present the history and development of Czech photography from 1900 to the turn of the millennium. Beginning with Art Nouveau-inspired ...

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The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.
Czech photography produced and produces leading figures in all areas of photography - from classical documentary photojournalism to surrealism, realism or avant-garde works. From 13 March 2009 on, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is presenting over 440 photographic works...

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Extended opening hours Saturday and Sunday
8 / 9 November and 15 / 16 November 2008:
open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Now online:
Catalogue No. 159: Modern and Contemporary Photographs

www.villa-grisebach.de/en/catalogues/

Auction on Thursday, 27 November 2008, at 3 p.m.

Viewing from 22 to 26 November in Berlin, Fasanenstrasse 73.
Saturday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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Gallery Camera Work in Berlin presents from September 20th until November 15th an exhibition of fashion photography of the 20th and 21st centuries. This group exhibition provides a representative overview of the development of fashion photography from its beginnings in the 1920s to the present time. With o...

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