Two Exhibitions
dal 19/8/2011 al 12/11/2011
Segnalato da
19/8/2011
Two Exhibitions
Brandts Mediemuseet, Fotokunst, Kunsthallen, Odense
In cooperation with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Museet for Fotokunst presents the exhibition 'Faith, Hope and Love - Jacob Holdt's America. The presentation of Holdt's pictures falls into thematic sections that reflect the categories in which Holdt himself has filed his images - as sober registrations of the subjects. Also on show 'Portraits from the collection', 130 photos by 70 photographers from the collection.
Faith, Hope and Love
Jacob Holdt's America
21 August - 13 November 2011
In cooperation with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Museet for Fotokunst presents the exhibition ”Faith, Hope and Love – Jacob Holdt´s America”. Big city people in the rough ghettos, drug addicts on the streets, the poor in their apathetic loneliness, the despondency of the well-heeled, the sick with no money for health care, the white, the black and the hungry. But also images of faith, hope and love – in short the social reality that prevails among the American population.
It is the ambition of the exhibition to guide the viewer into the pictorial universe of the photographer Jacob Holdt and to show images of great visual power as viewed with Holdt’s personal, almost anthropological fieldwork-like gaze. Jacob Holdt is in possession of a unique image bank packed with slides and photographs from the 1970s until the present day. Many of the 200 pictures have never been seen in public before.
The presentation of Holdt’s pictures falls into thematic sections that reflect the categories in which Holdt himself has filed his images – as sober registrations of the subjects. The pictures in the exhibition are divided up in the same way, so there is no overshadowing of what they are about – the images, the stories; for Holdt is both photographer and storyteller, and for him the pictures are nothing without the stories, without the narratives, without the people at whose lives we are looking. Police, Affluence and Guns are some of the headings of the themes. We also get the personal stories of Martha, Mary and John, a series of photographs of people Holdt visited in the early years and to whom he has continued to return. Other subjects are shown too – for example Landscape and Religion, The Street and The Night, Highways and Sunsets – all pieces that can be assembled into the great mosaic of Holdt’s America.
Holdt has always claimed that he is ”...not a good photographer, but a good vagabond. Good at getting into homes where no one else could come, but where anyone could take a good picture.” (Jacob Holdt).
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PHOTO. Portraits from the collection
The exhibition presents approximately 130 photos by 70 photographers from the collection.
20. August 2010 - 28. August 2011
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