| | | | | | | | | Natan Dvir: Juicy Couture 01, from the series Coming Soon, 2008–2014 © Natan Dvir | | | | | Street. Life. Photography. | | | | Seven Decades of Street Photography | | | | | | | 12 September 2020 – 10 January 2021 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Marilyn, 28 Years Old, Las Vegas, Nevada, 30$, 1990–1992
© Philip-Lorca diCorcia / Courtesy of Sprüth Magers and 303 Gallery | | | | | | Fleeting encounters in the streets of international metropolises, calm suburban scenes, thriving thoroughfares, quirky everyday settings – street photography presents the diversity of our urban spaces and the people who live in them. The exhibition "Street. Life. Photography" offers a range of very different perspectives on city life and ways ofphotographing the street.
Street photography depicts public life in metropolitan centres. It shows everyday scenes and escapades, commerce and individuality, comedy and tragedy, political engagement and social change. It portrays single people who seem to merge into the crowds, creating a sense of both proximity and distance. The diversity of urban spaces and their inherent dynamism have always offered countless opportunities for photographers to capture the city’s spectacle and drama.
The exhibition "Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography" presents around 220 works by thirty-seven international photographers made over the last seventy years. These works present a variety of different perspectives on urban life, while also showcasing the art of taking photographs on the street and in the city. How have photographers viewed the city and its inhabitants both now and in the past? To what extent is our understanding of public and private space and our relationship to our urban environment reflected in their works? How have views of the city – and thus also the genre of street photography – changed over the course of time?
In this exhibition, international contemporary photographers like Maciej Dakowicz, Loredana Nemes, Jenny Odell and Harri Pälviranta are contrasted with historical positions such as those of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Harry Callahan and Lisette Model. This comparison of historical and contemporary works enables visitors to appreciate key trends and important technical, conceptual and aesthetic developments. | | | | | | | | | | William Klein: Xmas, Macy‘s, December 1954, from the portfolio William Klein. New York. 54/55, Paris 1978 © William Klein | | | | | | The exhibition is divided into five kaleidoscopically arranged sections with different thematic approaches. The specific focuses on Street Life, Crashes, Public Transfer, Anonymity and Alienation highlight surprising and sometimes strange connections.
The Street Life section zeroes in on individual passers-by or groups. The street can be seen here as a stage and urban space as a backdrop – the people who appear there as protagonists become part of the theatre enacted in these photographs. The works range from fleeting snapshots to in-depth studies.
The section on Crashes contextualises photographs that address accidents, acts of violence, conflicts and social change or disorder. Here, the borders between fiction and apparent reality blur: What is real and what is enacted?
The section entitled Public Transfer looks at the spaces of public transportation as a tense liminal field of human behaviour, where a large portion of urban life plays out between the private and the public sphere.
The facelessness of big-city structures and the loss of social proximity are tackled in the section on Anonymity. Here, various works explore the phenomenon of anonymity with regard not only to the people photographed but also to the role of the photographers.
The Alienation section compares and contrasts different approaches that look at the themes of dissociation and distance in urban spaces. | | | | | | | | | | Siegfried Hansen: Hamburg, 2009, from the series Hold the Line, 2002–2014 © Siegfried Hansen | | | | | | The accompanying programme of events explores public space and the numerous, often unintended encounters that take place there. Guided tours geared to dialogue with the participants and conversations with the artists and experts provide insight into the diversity and complexity of street photography, while also highlighting the hindrances that street photography can face.
"Documenting public space poses complex questions. Who is observing whom, and how voyeuristic are our actions? What do the mechanisms of surveillance in urban space signify? What statements – intended or involuntary – are manifested in these pictures? We explore these questions – in the exhibition space and in our programme of events." Nadine Wietlisbach, director of Fotomuseum Winterthur
An exhibition by Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen Hamburg with works from the F. C. Gundlach Collection, Hamburg, hosted at Fotomuseum Winterthur. The exhibition was curated by Dr Sabine Schnakenberg (Deichtorhallen Hamburg). Nadine Wietlisbach and her team added additional elements to stimulate further reflection. The exhibition is complemented by a catalogue (Kehrer Verlag) with texts by Sabine Schnakenberg and Christoph Schaden. | | | | | | | | | | Axel Schön: Untitled, 1993, from the series Feuer, Novgorod, 1993 © Axel Schön | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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