A New View
dal 25/5/2010 al 4/9/2010
Segnalato da
25/5/2010
A New View
Museum fur Fotografie, Berlin
The Art Library is reopening its newly reconstructed Kaisersaal (Emperor's Hall) at the Museum of Photography with a show of hidden treasures of architectural photography from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin. Since 150 years nearly all of the various museums have acquired photographs.
Reopening of the newly reconstructed Kaisersaal (Emperor's Hall) at the Museum of Photography
The Art Library is reopening its newly reconstructed Kaisersaal (Emperor's Hall) at the Museum of Photography with a show of hidden treasures of architectural photography from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin. Since 150 years nearly all of the various museums have acquired photographs.
The genre of architectural photography is especially prominent represented. It was collected for the purpose of documenting ethnological and archeological expeditions, to archive architectural monuments or as an art form in its own right. An impressive panorama of the most diverse architectural motifs unfolds, ranging from the beginnings of photography to today: to mention but a few, there are images of bamboo huts from the Ethnological Museum, of temples from the Egyptian Museum, of Indian mosques from the Museum of Asian Art and architectural photographs from classical modernism that come from the Art Library's Collection of Photography. Around 300 exhibition items present architectural photography as a central genre of the medium, and open up a new, uncommon view of their history.
Eugène Atget, Édouard Denis Baldus, Bisson Frères (Louis-Auguste & Auguste-Rosalie), Samuel Bourne, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Otto Ehrhardt, John Beasley Greene, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Heinrich Heidersberger, Alexander Henderson, Candida Höfer, Stefan Koppelkamm, Hermann Krone, Bernard Larsson, Reiner Leist, Ute Mahler, Helmut Newton, Helga Paris, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Thomas Ruff, Heidi Specker, Hiroshi Sugimoto, ...
Presented by:
Art Library
Art Libary - Collection of Photography
Catalogue
edited by Ludger Derenthal and Christine Kühn
with essays by Ludger Derenthal, Janos Frecot, Simone Förster, Susanne Holschbach, Stefanie Klamm, Kathrin Kohle, Christine Kühn, Barbara Lauterbach, Andrea Lesjak, Kristina Lowis, An Paenhuysen, Miriam Paeslack, Annette Philp
Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen and Berlin 34,80 € (museum), 49 € (booktrade)
Image: Frank Cousins, Treppenhaus in Daniel P. Parker's Mansion, Boston um 1910, Silbergelatinepapier, Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Fotografie, © SMB
Press contact
Anne Schäfer-Junker tel +49 (0)30 266423402 fax +49 (0)30 266423409 presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Press conference: 26 May 2010, 11 am
Opening: 26 May 2010, 7 pm
Museum fur Fotografie
Jebensstr. 2, 10623 Berlin
Hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m, monday closed, Thu 10 a.m. - 10 p.m