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28/9/2012

Collection Edward Steichen

Centre national de l'audiovisuel CNA, Luxembourg

The Centre is opening a major new space dedicated to photography. On 29 September 2012 the centre has launched Waassertuerm + Pomhouse, featuring two exhibition galleries created in the unusual setting of an industrial water tower (Waassertuerm) and its adjacent pumping station (Pomhouse) as part of the CNA extension project on the grounds of a former neighbouring steel plant. The water tower, with its stunning circular gallery, will become the permanent home of Edward Steichen's exhibition The Bitter Years 1935-1941, curated in 1962 for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York with a selection of images from the Farm Security Administration. In the context of labour and migration, in the town of Dudelange, one of Luxembourg's historic industrial centres, The Bitter Years, with its compelling view of rural America during the Great Depression, will acquire new meaning. Fifty years after its first viewing at MoMA, the historic collection provides the corner stone for reflections about contemporary image making, and Pomhouse offers the framework for an ongoing dialogue between past and present interpretations of the ever evolving medium of photography. "Coexistence" is the outcome of a commission awarded to British artist Stephen Gill by the CNA in 2011 in anticipation of the inaugural exhibition of the Waassertuerm+Pomhouse, two new sites dedicated to photography in Luxembourg. (Image: Dorothea Lange, Migratory cotton picker. Eloy, Arizona, 1940 C The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California)

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