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Exposition : Toni Schneiders - Retrospective
Bernheimer Fine Art is pleased to announce the retrospective of German photographer Toni Schneiders (1920 – 2006), who was one of the most important figures of photography in post-war Europe.
As a founding member of the avant-garde group fotoform (one of the participants in the world photography exhibition of 1952 held in Lucerne) and a pioneer of travel photography, his works are considered to be outstanding examples of art photography from the 20th century.
In 1949 Otto Steinert, Peter Keetman, Siegfried Lauterwasser, Wolfgang Reisewitz and Toni Schneiders created fotoform, a progressive group characterized by their experimental approach to photography. With them the so-called ‘subjective photography’ originated and became a well reputed art style around the world, proving it possible to contin... - Exposition
Streetlife Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975
In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.
During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand events were done by Alfred Eisenstaedt or Tim Gidal. Outstanding photographers working for the illustrated magazines "Life" and "Stern", such as Jerry Cooke, Robert Lebeck, Stefan Moses and Thomas Hoepker continued in this tradition.
Again and again public streets became a stage for crucial contemporary historical happenings: so for example in the photo series, shot by Roman Vishniac of the Schtetln of Polish Jews, before their exp...
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