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7/2/2006

click doubleclick.The Documentary Factor.

Haus der Kunst, Munich

The title of the exhibition stands symbolically for the technical transition phase in which photography is situated, from the analog-dominated technology of making pictures to the digital approach. The photographers' works are not primarily devoted to the illustration of sociological, political or anthropological subjects; they reflect these subjects and draw their material from the critical engagement with them. The show unites works of internationally recognized photographers with those of the younger generation.


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The Documentary Factor. Group show

At the moment photography is in a phase of change in which an altered conception of the documentary factor is emerging. It is no longer as much a matter of the portrayal or representation of reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded idea of the world.

The title of the exhibition stands symbolically for the technical transition phase in which photography is presently situated, from the analog-dominated technology of making pictures--click-- to the digital, computer-supported approach--doubleclick. Despite different methods of production and image strategies, there is the common element of a subjective view of reality in the formal language of the documentary.

When Walker Evans (1903-1975) was asked at the end of his career whether his photographs were documents, he replied that the police make photographic documents of crime scenes but that in his pictures it was more a matter of photographs in the documentary style. It thus becomes apparent that in the case of these kinds of photographs, it is not a matter of the classical form of documentary photography, whose aim is the mimetic photographic doubling of a motif, but of formulating a personal way of seeing that also discloses the photographer's relationship to the world.

The selected photographers are connected by their interest in creating valid images. Their works are not primarily devoted to the illustration of sociological, political or anthropological subjects; they reflect these subjects and draw their material from the critical engagement with them, but must be understood as artistic self-expressions that develop into dialogs. The photographs do not have any evidential character; they do not put themselves at the service of science nor do they have any function but formulate rather a belief in the art work as an aesthetic object with its own laws.

Despite different methods of production and image strategies, the works of the exhibiting artists allude to a "Welthaltigkeit", to a close, truthful connection to their motifs that may be referred to as the documentary factor. Each construction can be expressed as the sum of the individual parts of a photographic series or as the condensation of different shots into a single digital image, as an intended assertion or intended artificiality. The viewer of the individual images tries to decipher their construction of authenticity, continually vacillating between accepting and rejecting, amazement and fascination, belief and doubt.

click doubleclick is curated by Thomas Weski and unites works of internationally recognized photographers with those of the younger generation. Haus der Kunst presents the world premiere of photographs by Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky, Taryn Simon and Juergen Teller. The works of Tina Barney, Dirk Braeckman, David Claerbout, Stephen Gill, Paul Graham, Scott McFarland, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jules Spinatsch and Wolfgang Tillmans are shown for the first time in Germany. And finally, works by Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra and Thomas Ruff are exhibited partly for the first time in Germany.

Artists:
Tina Barney (USA) | Laurenz Berges (D) | Dirk Braeckman (B) | David Claerbout (B) | Luc Delahaye (F) | Rineke Dijkstra (NL) | Patrick Faigenbaum (F) | Stephen Gill (GB) | Paul Graham (GB) | Andreas Gursky (D) | Scott McFarland (CAN) | Hans van der Meer (NL) | Martin Parr (GB) | Judith Joy Ross (USA) | Thomas Ruff (D) | Taryn Simon (USA) | Alec Soth (USA) | Heidi Specker (D) | Jules Spinatsch (CH) | Thomas Struth (D) | Larry Sultan (USA) | Juergen Teller (D) | Wolfgang Tillmans (D) | Jeff Wall (CAN)

Co-production Haus der Kunst, Munich and Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

With the assitance of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Foundation.

And with the support of the Sparkassen-Kulturfonds des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes.

Accompanying programme

Martin Parr in conversation with Ulrich Pohlmann
Thursday 9 March 2006, 8 pm
where: Haus der Kunst
The conversation will be held in English.

Jean-Francois Chevrier
Lecture
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 7 pm
where: Institut Francais de Munich
The lecture will be held in French
Entrance fee : 5 Euro
Reservation under: 089 28 66 28 0
This evening is organised in cooperation with the Institut Francais de Munich.

Luc Delahaye in conversation with Jean-Francois Chevrier
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 8 pm
where: Haus der Kunst
The conversation will be held in English.
This evening is organised in cooperation with the Institut Francais de Munich.

Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstrasse 1 - Munchen
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 10am-8pm; Thur 10am-10 pm

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