| | | |  | | | | © Nomi Baumgartl, 'Ginger Kamphuis & Miguel Borges, South Africa, 1999 | | | | | SUMMER | | | | | | | ... until 16 September 2022 | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Herbert List 'Ostsee Picknick', 1930 | | | | | | | The year is in full swing, people are drawn to the meadows and beaches, the leaves dress the trees in rich green. And even if we can't see them in black-and-white photographs, the bright colors of summer can still be glimpsed. In any case, Johanna Breede, with her skilful sense of image selection and composition, once again knows how to make colors shine that are not there at first glance. | | | | | |  | | | | © Lillian Birnbaum 'Evgen Bavcar und Hannah Schygulla' 1990 | | | | | | | In the monochrome photographs of Jens Knigge or Marek Pozniak, for example, we intuitively believe we recognize a luminous garden green. Even the exuberant beach days in glistening bright light, as captured by Robert Lebeck or Hannes Kilian in "Sweet Sixties" carry the bright colors of summer beneath the grayscale of the prints. In any case, it is the beaches of this world in particular that we immediately associate with the hottest of all seasons. At the beginning of the 1990s, Swiss photographer Beat Presser captured the joy of life of a girl on the coast of Madagascar in a square. Just a few years earlier, in 1988, U.S. photographer Sheila Rock portrayed a young man in a hat, jacket and charismatic, shy expression in front of the vast ocean panorama of Malibu Beach for Tempo magazine. And then there is Stefan Moses with his black-and-white photograph "Lady with Borzoi" taken in 1976 on the island of Elba. In its humanization, the back view of woman and dog is reminiscent of the humorous photographs of an Elliott Erwitt. | | | | | |  | | | | © René Groebli, #1905, Kreta 1980 | | | | | | In any case, humor is a not insignificant component of the summer exhibition at Fasanenstrasse 69. We encounter it in the picture "Painting Course for Wealthy Retired Women" and the title could not be more telling: a dozen ladies with sixties curly heads can be seen in the picture trying to get cacti onto their easels in the dry Arizona desert. Herbert List's "Rhinelander" standing in a freshly mowed meadow like a mischievous schoolboy with a satchel, is also a humorous portrait of a cheerful nature.
As in the previous winter and spring exhibitions, the summer selection of images on the gallery walls is once again characterized by a refreshing diversity. Whether it's Lillian Birnbaum's picture of Hannah Schygulla, taken as if in passing, the delicately melancholic diptych of an Isa Marcelli, or the summery portrait of Nomi Baumgartl, which the photographer took of the then sought-after supermodel Tatjana Patitz in the 1990s: for Johanna Breede, summer is a colorful time, even in black and white.
Jana Kühle | | | | | |  | | | | © Thomas Hoepker 'Muhammad Ali', London 1966 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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