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15/6/2001

The desiring eye

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj

150 years of photografy from Moderna Museet's collection

The best pictures of the history of photography

224 of the world's best photographs constitute the next exhibition at ARKEN. THE DESIRING EYE includes pictures by 53 photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Stieglitz, and a number of the works have not previously been exhibited in Denmark.

Henri Cartier-Bresson's unique pictures of everyday life, Nadar's celebrity portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, Eugène Delacroix and Charles Baudelaire, Julia Margaret Cameron's elegant Victorian portraits. For the first time in Denmark it will be possible to see in the flesh a number of the photographic mas-terpieces one usually only sees reproduced in books. These photographs will be shown at ARKEN's exhibition THE DESIRING EYE which opens 16 June 2001.

THE DESIRING EYE consists of a total of 224 photographs selected espe-cially for the exhibition from Moderna Museet's (Stockholm) impressive col-lection of 300,000 photographs. They are taken by some of the world's most famous photographers: Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nadar, Roger Fenton, Alfred Stieglitz, Carleton Eugene Watkins, Ansel Adams, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugène Atget, Bill Brandt, Helen Levitt, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Paul Strand.

The subjects span from 1850s travelogues and portrait photography to twentieth century studies of nature, the human body, everyday objects and modern architecture. Some, like Eugène Atget's and Bill Brandt's Surrealist pictures, portray our everyday existence and surroundings in a new light. Others are glances of history and early urban mentality: Common fishwives from the 1840s, little Victorian girls with flounce dresses and ringlets, a deserted Fifth Avenue in 1935. All posses that unique fascination that characterises the photographic masterpiece: They burn themselves into our memory, communicating directly to us. And making us want to see more.

Look forward to an exhibition experience in the company of the masterpieces of the history of photography!

The exhibition is organised by Moderna Museet, Stockholm


Events in connection with exhibition

Wednesday 20 June, 18.30
Summer theme: Portrait photography
What makes a good portrait? And why do some photographs become classics while others are soon forgotten? Photographer Suste Bonnén offers a sugges-tion [in Danish] when she focuses on portrait photography in relation to The Desiring Eye.
Free for visitors to the museum

Tuesday 26 June - Sunday 1 July, 12 and 14
Summer theme: Photographer for a day
Photo session for children and young people at ARKEN. Join the tour of The Desiring Eye and find inspiration for arranging your own scenes for photogra-phy. All children receive a print of their photographs.
Free for visitors to the museum.

Wednesday 11 July, 18.30
Lecture: The Desiring Eye
Lecture [in Danish] by curatorial assistant Camilla Cadell.
Free for visitors to the museum

Wednesday 8 August, 18.30
Lecture: A photographer
For the last 25 years Jacob Holdt has travelled the world with his slide show and lecture American Pictures. When he visits ARKEN, Jacob Holdt will be speaking [in Danish] on his more than 25 years as a photographer - on having something on your mind, on trying to render visible the slum of USA, and on the lives of the people from the bottom of society who featured in his first pic-tures.
Tickets: DKK 20 + museum entrance fee

Wednesday 15 August, 18.30
Lecture: The photograph as witness?
Photographer Mads Gamdrup expounds [in Danish] on photography's position in contemporary art and also discusses photography's development from documentation to art. Which stories do photographs want to tell when they are no longer copies of reality?
Tickets: DKK 20 + museum entrance fee


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