William Eggleston. Democratic Camera. Photographs and Video, 1961–2008
Exhibition catalogue
Published by the Whitney Museum of Art and Haus der Kunst
Distributed by Yale University Press; with essays by Thomas Weski, Elisabeth Sussman, Donna De Salvo, Tina Kukielski, Stanley Booth and Adam Welch
304 pages
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William Eggleston
Exhibition 20.02 – 17.05.09
The American artist William Eggleston (*1939, Memphis, USA) is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic photographer’s of the 20th century. This comprehensive retrospective follows his artistic development from the early black-and-white images and pioneering transition to colour photography, all the way to the present day. MORE
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Bernd und Hilla Becher
Exhibition 16.06 – 19.09.04
Bernd and Hilla Becher met in Düsseldorf at the end of the fifties and have been working together since then, for over forty years, on an archive for industrial architecture. Invariably using the neutral background of a grey and cloudless sky, they place their chosen images centre-picture and format-filling. Following previously determined criteria, the photos make up so-called "Typologies". In exhibitions the black and white photographs are arranged into tableaux, thus a screen-like presentation emerges, giving the viewer the opportunity to compare images. MORE
Parrworld
Exhibition 07.05 – 17.08.08
For more than 30 years, Parr has been documenting society and everyday culture, predominantly in his home country Great Britain, but beyond this, he has also documented global phenomena such as mass tourism, consumerist behaviour or so-called leisure time. He is considered to be a satirist of contemporary life; his photographs are unsparingly critical and his inimitable eye unmasks the banal as well as the grotesque. MORE
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Sammlung Herzog
Exhibition 06.04 – 12.06.05
In the exhibition "The Body of Photography" the Haus der Kunst presents masterpieces from the Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection of Basel. It is, among other things, the photo historical, historical, sociological, ethnological, and ethnographical aspect that makes a photograph desirable to Ruth and Peter Herzog. MORE
Lee Friedlander
Exhibition 16.11.05 – 12.02.06
The Haus der Kunst presents, with nearly 500 photographs, the most extensive exhibition of the American photographer Lee Friedlander to date. Like Walker Evans, Lee Freedlander was probing what he called "the American social landscape" – shop fronts, ads, tvs, cars, the whole panoply of the city street. MORE
Click Doubleclick
Exhibition 08.02 – 23.04.06
„Click Doubleclick“ presents selected standpoints in contemporary photography in which the image results are a construction of authenticity. The focus of the exhibition is the understanding of reality in photography and faith in the authenticity that is still associated with the medium. MORE
Gilbert & George
Exhibition 11.06 – 09.09.07
The "Major Exhibition" presents Gilbert & George's art of the last forty years – not only the pictures, but also all the mediums with which the artists have engaged, including documentations on their "Living Sculptures", books, large format charcoal-on-paper sculptures from the early 70s, postcard sculptures and films. MORE