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5/5/2011

Birgit Kleber

Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin

Birgit Kleber, born in Hannover 1956, worked after her training as a photographer and picture editor for various magazines. In the U.S. she attended workshops by Lotte Jacobi and Berenice Abbott. Since 1984 she works as a freelance photographer concentrating mainly on portrait photography. The protagonists of Fine Art, literature, film, music and photography are all to be found in her archive. Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST puts her focus on those protagonists. The first time Birgit Kleber´s numerous portraits of international photographers are shown. Portraits of an intense examination with respect to her vis-à-vis.

'Birgit Kleber, who became known for her delicate portraits of women in unusual circumstances, has photographed photographers over the last few years. Photographers are usually found not in front of, but behind, cameras. Rarely do they themselves feel at home in the virtual worlds they create with the help of their equipment, their imagination, and their visual intelligence. Compared to artist’s portraits, portraits of photographers are rare. It is said that some photographers deliberately withdraw from the invasive eye of the camera, though this is most likely to be hearsay.'
Klaus Honnef
in: Birgit Kleber, Photographers, JOVIS Publishers, Berlin 2011

Parallel to the exhibition JOVIS Publishers release
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Portraits of Birgit Kleber
Foreword by Klaus Honnef
English/German
96 Pages with approx. 55 b/w portraits images
ISBN 978-3-86859-133-0

Image: © Birgit Kleber, Gisèle Freund, 1996

Opening May 06,2011 19 h

Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST
Fasanenstr. 69, 10719 Berlin
opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 6 pm, Saturday 11 am - 4 pm
free entry

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