Shifting Media. New Role of Photography
16 July - 12 September 2010
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SHIFTING MEDIA . NEW ROLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
From Robert Capa to Donovan Wylie
16.07 to 12.09. 2010
Opening Thursday, 15. Juli 2010 .7 p.m.
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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