Leni Riefenstahl née Berta Helene Amalie « Leni » Riefenstahl (22 août 1902 à Berlin - 8 septembre 2003 à Pöcking) fut une danseuse, actrice, réalisatrice et photographe allemande. Malgré une œuvre remarquée, elle sera rejetée par la plupart des cinéastes, car elle s'est associée aux menées des Nazis.
Livre Leni Riefenstahl : Cinq vies (en français, allemand et anglais) Exposition « Tattoo, the face of freedom » in Teutloff Museum Exposition Exposition « Collector’s Room Update 2: Reinventing the World » en Belgique Exposition A F R I C A - Photographs by NICK BRANDT, IRVING PENN, MIRELLA RICCIARDI, LENI RIEFENSTAHL and GEORGE RODGER Exposition The Vision of the Other: Modernity and the Photographed Face Exposition A virtual exhibition - TATTOO Exposition »Africa« exhibition Modifier l'image
Danseuse, dans le début des années vingt à Berlin, comédienne, réalisatrice puis productrice de ses propres films, et enfin photographe. On aurait tort, comme beaucoup le font, de réduire Leni Riefenstahl, née en 1902, à cette femme égérie d'Hitler pendant quelques années. Comme s'il ne s'agissait que de cela. Avec cet ouvrage remarquable, commenté par Angelika Taschen, historienne de l'art, on évoquera les années de danse, ses années passées sur les planches, derrière la caméra et dans les bureaux de production pour s'attarder sur ce qui semble le plus essentiel chez cette femme, la photographie. Un exercice qui n'était pas, il est vrai, au départ, une vocation :
J'ai été danseuse corps et âme. En tant qu'actrice, mes désirs sont restés inassouvis. Je suis devenue photographe uniquement parce...
The tattoo, originally “the tatau” ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now there is only an exotic and erotic everyday life possible.
To cover the body with signs is like opening a door. A door to paradise, to another place, to an utopian place. The body itself becomes this heterotopos. The body itself becomes this utopian place. The door of the tattoo leads to the theater of illusions - just think of Genet -, to the theater of desires like in a dream. The door of the tattoo leads to the room of childhood, to the chambers of the unconscious.
To tattoo o...
Following the international success of the first Collector’s Room Update: Stieglitz meets Misonne we proudly present you our second Update: Reinventing the World.
Reinventing the world is the second part of a photo trilogy giving an overview of the Anamorfose collection of vintage historical art photography.
The Collector’s Room Updates are not traditional museum exhibitions but rather a personal view on historical photography.
Reinventing the World is a group exhibition with the work of 20 different belgian and european photographers such as Willy Kessels (B), Raoul Hausmann (D), Leni Riefenstahl (D), Alexis Delcroix (B), Henri Martinie (FR), Nikolaï Kossikoff (RU/B), Dr. Paul Wolff (D), Sasha Stone (D) and Gerhard Riebicke (D).
The exhibition is a unique confrontation of vintage pri...
Atlas Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of fine and rare photographs by five of the most important photographers to work in the continent over the last fifty years. Though strikingly different in style, the work of each is closely related both by geography and inspiration. Brandt’s timeless portraits of wildlife owe much to the back-drop portrait style of Penn’s Benin portraits, while Riefenstahl’s inspiration for her colour Nuba portraits derives directly from Rodger’s famous ‘Nuba Wrestlers’. Ricciardi’s iconic book ‘Vanishing Africa’, published in 1971, was also of central importance to Brandt’s mission to capture the majesty of Africa’s wild animals, many in the process of near extinction. In the work of all five there is an ur...
KOWASA gallery presents "The Vision of the Other: Modernity and the Photographed Face", a group show which attempts to define the way in which the human face was photographically constructed before its abolition by Postmodernism. The exhibition primarily offers a thorough insight into the history of portrait photography with a special emphasis on the shift of the portrait from being a mere "extension of the painted body" to being the photographic genre par excellence. At the same time it highlights the aesthetic and conceptual evolution of early portraiture from Pictorialism towards a modernist experimentation and subjectivity.
The exhibition gathers more than 70 black and white prints whose protagonists are Coco Chanel, Ernest Heminway, André Breton, Marc Chagall, Dalí, Josep Pl...
Tattoo
Curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM
The tattoo, originally "the tatau" ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now there is only an exotic and erotic everyday life possible.
To cover the body with signs is like opening a door. A door to paradise, to another place, to an utopian place. The body itself becomes this heterotopos. The body itself becomes this utopian place.
The door of the tattoo leads to the theater of illusions - just think of Genet -, to the theater of desires like in a dream. The door of the tattoo leads to the room of childhood, to t...
Gallery CAMERA WORK in Berlin presents the exhibition »Africa« from the 26th of April until the 7th of July that provides an insight into the breathtaking landscape and wildlife as well as the culture of individual countries on the black continent. Problematic social circumstances are not ignored, like the photo reportages by Thomas Billhardt, Robert Lebeck and Oliver Jannsen show. They focus on the social upheavals after the colonial rule or the impact of the HIV pandemic.
The American artist Kurt Markus concentrates on the widths of the Sahara desert with a series of dune landscapes. Nick Brands' portraits of African animals reflect their natural dignity. Highlights of his shown works are »Drinking elephant« presented for the first time in the format of 142 x 185 cm, as well as the last avail...