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"Weihnachtskugelpralinenpackungkaffeedosencameraobscura", 2018
© Günter Derleth | | | Bird's-Eye View / Worm's-Eye View | | | | Photography for Children | | | | | | | 9 October, 2022 - 19 February, 2023 | | | | A special exhibition of the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | "Christa kommt im Flugzeug", Postkarte, 1935
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek | | | | | | For the first time, the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin is opening its doors primarily to children. The show focuses on the concrete-sensual materiality of original photographs and complements them with a selection of prints, drawings, sculptures, and films. The colorful mix of around 240 works illustrates the uses, forms of design, and expressions of photography from its beginnings to the present.
Ten associatively grouped chapters offer a wealth of images and photographic stories. They include episodes about finding, collecting and photographic storytelling; about reading numbers, letters or clouds as well as about discoveries in everyday life, at school and on trips. Photographs of animals and nature can be found in them, memories of families and friendship, but also automaton portraits and photographic games of color, light, mirror and material. The exhibition spans the spectrum from the snapshot to the classic advertising shot from the professional studio and the socially committed photo reportage to artistic forms of design and concepts. These include Pictorialism around 1900, the New Vision of the 1920s, or photographic art, mail art, and positions of staged photography. | | | | | |  | | | "Jill, Nancy, Candy, Billy No. Lavalette N. J."
Automatenbild (Photomatic), USA, 1940er-Jahre © Archiv Günter Karl Bose | | | | | | The exhibits come from the rich collections of the Kunstbibliothek, supplemented by loans from the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as from artists and private collections, and present a "school of seeing“. In addition, a reading island with photographically illustrated picture books creates space to immerse oneself in new worlds. This media diversity not only holds exciting discoveries in store for a young audience. Rather, it conveys how differently people look at life, making the exhibition an experience for young and old alike.
The exhibition catalog is aimed at young people and their families. As a narrative book about images, the history of photography and the history of the collection, it is equally a treasure trove for museum educators, teachers, photographers and artists, as well as for anyone who enjoys photography. | | | | | |  | | | Antje Damm
Sendlinger-Tor-Platz in Munich from the bird's eye view with ant, 2014
© Klaus Leidorf / Antje Damm | | | | | | | An extensive accompanying program invites visitors to discover, participate and try out. The focus is always on the messages behind the images and what happens in the darkness of the camera or in the lab. But above all, it gets practical. Finally, interdisciplinary events, performances and artist talks open up a view of the close interweaving of the history of photography with the realities of life, questions and practices from everyday life. | | | | | |  | | | Aenne Biermann
"Würfelbecher", Mai 1929 oder früher
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