MAGNUM'S first
Magnum Photos, founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour and Bill Vandivert, is perhaps the most famous photography agency and collective in the world today. Until recently it was thought that the earliest Magnum group show was the photographic scholar L. Fritz Gruber's 1956 exhibit, curated for the Photokina in Cologne.
Sep 5, 2008 at 08:03 - discussion - info+

Cairoscape exhibition
Cairoscape - Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City introduces the dynamic situation of contemporary art and culture in Egypt to the Berlin public. Taking the Arab-African megalopolis of Cairo as a starting point, Cairoscape proposes a different way of looking at the modern city and at the phenomenon of contemporary urbanization.
Sep 4, 2008 at 09:20 - discussion - info+

Patrick Taberna Au Fil Des Jours
Patrick Taberna's images are extremely impressive. Because of the stability of tone, they are rather dark, those images bring people a feelings of uneasiness. Sometimes they blur,sometimes they are out of focus, and this emphasize the story of unknown place.
Sep 3, 2008 at 12:02 - discussion - info+

MOCKBA! Contemporary Art from Russia
Galerie Volker Diehl is proud to present a group exhibition with contemporary Russian artists living and working in Moscow. This exhibition has arisen out of Volker Diehl‘s many years of involvement in the Russian art scene, culminating with the opening of DIEHL + GALLERY ONE this year in April, providing own exhibition space in Moscow. Now, the home Berlin gallery is hosting a cross-section of Russian contemporary art relevant in the international arena.
Sep 2, 2008 at 07:57 - discussion - info+

Photomeetings Luxembourg 2008
Photojournalism and Portraiture Symposium · Tribute to Gisèle Freund on her 100th anniversary. Born in Berlin in 1908, Gisèle Freund was one of Europe's most prominent photographersand a pillar among French feminist intellectuals ...
Sep 1, 2008 at 13:09 - discussion - info+

Polixeni Papapetrou Games of Consequence
Games of Consequence explores the themes that Papapetrou has consistently explored - the territory of female childhood and maturation. This new work is based on childhood memories of unregimented play. Polixeni Papapetrou recalls the spontaneity and freedom she experienced growing up spending hours playing with friends outside the home discovering worlds beyond her own.
Aug 29, 2008 at 09:48 - discussion - info+

MuHKA The order of things
In the fall of 2008, the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA will host an exhibition on the uses of archival images, image archives and image banks (and various other manifestations of a classificatory, encyclopaedic impulse) in contemporary art.
Aug 28, 2008 at 09:44 - discussion - info+

Josef Breitenbach exhibition of vintage photographs
This exhibition will highlight Josef Breitenbach’s avant-garde work from the 1930s and 40s. His use of vibrant color as an expressive tool sets him apart from his contemporaries and earns him a place in the history of art of this period. Breitenbach colored elements of his photographs using complex processes of bleaching, toning and pigment printing.
Aug 27, 2008 at 09:30 - discussion - info+

Michael Thompson exhibition
Part of the fashion continuum from Beaton and Horst through to Avedon and Bourdin, Michael Thompson is known for his extraordinary imagination and clarity, his vivid use of color, as well as his calm and diligence. American Photo named Thompson as one of the most important photographers working today, “renowned for making women look beautiful ... he sees them as art”.
Aug 26, 2008 at 18:07 - discussion - info+