A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE

Posted on 2009-03-02

A family album, a comprehensive exhibition, and a personal diary – Annie Leibovitz’s photographs from her private life and professional work merge seamlessly into a chronicle of the events, official commissions, and personal stories of the last fifteen years. C/O Berlin presents “A Photographer’s Life” as first and only venue in Germany. The exhibition comprises a total of 200 photographs, many of them large-format works and monochrome landscapes, as well as a number of private family photos and small format black and white portraits.

Opposite – My Brother Philip and My Father, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1988, Annie Leibovitz

This exhibition runs until the 24th of May 2009

C/O Berlin
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße
Tucholskystraße
10117 Berlin
Germany

www.co-berlin.info

   Tweet

WORKS 80-08

Posted on 2009-03-02

Moderna Museet presents Andreas Gursky: Works 80-08, 2009. Born in Leipzig in 1955 and living in Düsseldorf, Andreas Gursky has long been considered one of the world’s leading photographers. Works 80-08 presents his entire oeuvre. The artist has selected more than 140 works from nearly three decades, the earliest of which were taken from his immediate surroundings, followed by images from an ever expanding radius, and ending in a global perspective. From distant and elevated vantage points, Andreas Gursky creates photographs that exceed the registering capacity of the eye. By revisiting locations and events repeatedly over an extended period of time, he not only sheds light on various forms of social contexts, such as mass meetings of a Capitalist or Communist nature, but also depicts structures in transformation. The photographs of large corporations and stock markets from the 1980s and onwards are examples of this. The exhibition Works 80-08, featuring many photographs never previously shown, presents both the side of the artist where an individual image becomes an entire universe – the latest images are in Gursky’s well-known large format – as well as his encyclopaedic side. Offering space for the artist’s entire oeuvre has been made possible by the fact that he has produced small-scale copies of earlier works. This radical approach presents a generous opportunity to follow Gursky’s artistic development while at the same time conveying a whole new perspective on the individual art-works.

This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May 2009

www.modernamuseet.se

   Tweet