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Exhibition

MAGNUM . Shifting Media . New Role of Photography


From Robert Capa to Donovan Wylie
16 July to 19 September 2010
Opening Thursday, 15 July 2010 . 7 pm


The exhibition illustrates the phases of modern photojournalism, tracing the more than sixty-year history of Magnum Photos alongside the changing demands of the mass media and its users. A focal point of the exhibition is classic photo reportage—a format traditionally printed on paper, as seen in book and magazine publications as well as exhibition prints. The expanding presence of photography in the print media is evidenced in the photographs and selected magazine publications of the four Magnum founders. After all, it wasn’t particular photos that made Magnum extraordinary, but the agency’s strong presence in the media as a source for professional visual material. Magazines like Life, Look, Paris Match, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Stern, The Sunday Times Magazine, and Fortune on display in the exhibition demonstrate the various channels of distribution. Films, videos, and installations by the current generation of Magnum photographers reveal how dramatically the goals and target audiences have changed: the photojournalistic work of their predecessors has given way to images that no longer circulate primarily in magazines or print media, but that find their place as artworks on museum walls.

The photographers Christopher Anderson, Jonas Bendiksen, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Antoine D’Agata, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Trent Parke, Paolo Pellegrin, George Rodger, David Seymour, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, Ilkka Uimonen, Peter van Agtmael, Donovan Wylie

Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's governing mayor, will be the patronage the the exhibition "shifting media".

In Cooperation with MAGNUM Photos . Agentur Focus
Sponsored by Weberbank. Daimler Financial Services
Bayer Kultur . Deutsche Börse Group . Erfurt & Sohn . Brillux
Supported by Wall AG . AV Tour . Druckerei Seltmann . Hotel Bogota Berlin
ZEIT Magazin . Dinamix . Culinarium
Media partners Die Tageszeitung . tip Berlin . Berliner Fenster . Monopol . Kulturradio

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Exhibition


Talents 20 . Left Behind
Friederike Brandenburg / Sophia Greiff

31 July to 27 September 2010
Opening Friday, 30 July 2010

The roof of a light-blue car, nestled among the spreading fronds of wild ferns and protected by lush green branches. A run-down wooden shack in a snowy landscape, its once brightly colored paint now dull and peeling. Two rusty freight car frames that blend seamlessly into their surroundings. Lonely and abandoned, useless and redundant, these urban castaways stand alone in vast landscapes, devoid of human life—in places where they do not really belong.

Photographer Friederike Brandenburg follows the isolated traces of civilization in places otherwise presumed to represent a pristine, untouched state of nature. Beyond the well-traveled roads, in shady clearings and wide-open fields, she uncovers the objects discarded by human society, revealing their singular aesthetic qualities and sometimes almost absurd presence. Her photographs visualize the paradoxical relationship between beauty and decay.

 

A Program by C/O's e.V.
In Cooperation with Deutsche Börse Group
Supported by Goethe Institut . DruckConcept . av tour . Dinamix . Veltins . Schwarze Dose 28
Media Partner Freshmilk tv

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C/O Berlin is seeking...

young photographers and art critics for Talents 2011

for the theme Cinematic Thinking until 31 December 2010


In 2011, C/O's e.V. will continue its Talents exhibition series and is seeking promising young photographers to submit their work until 31 December 2010 for this unique promotional program in Europe.


In 2011, the Talents series will focus on the theme of Cinematic Thinking. Engagement with the medium of film has become ever more central to photography in recent years. This can be seen in the increasing exploration of film production processes, experimentation with narrative structures, and references to film aesthetics and film myths. How can photography adapt film structures and simulaneously break them open? What strengths do still images have over moving pictures? Photography in the classical sense, with its conventional wall presentation, can be expanded through the utilization of projection and installation strategies, thereby creating new possibilities for reflecting on the medium of photography itself.

 

A Program by C/O's e.V.
In Cooperation with Deutsche Börse Group
Supported by Goethe Institut . DruckConcept . av tour . Dinamix

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Nan Goldin and her work as a photographer are closely linked to Berlin. She traveled regularly to the western part of the city starting in the 1980s, and spent a year in Berlin during the early 1990s as a guest of the DAAD Artists in Residence program. Nan Goldin’s work during this time, like her earlier work, captured her and her friends’ most intimate adventures in the midst of the city’s turbulent underground—without boundaries and without taboos. Her photographs have the attraction of intimacy: they give evidence of love, lust, and friendship, but at the same time, they are unique documents of loneliness, sickness, and the fragility of life. The image that Nan Goldin selected especially for the C/O Berlin limited edition is a photograph taken in 1992 on Hornstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

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