September13th until November 5th, 2011
Timm Rautert «New York 1969 – Tokyo…»
12th November until 23rd December 2010
Bruce Wrighton «At Home»
«Bruce Wrighton's work spanned a relatively small area, the downtown of Binghamton, New York, and a few nearby cities, and he had only a relatively short time to do it in, for he died in 1988 at the age of 38.
Yet he produced a portrait of a place and time – and a class – in America that brings a segment of history more alive than any textbook and is better to look at than most of them. The place comes through clearly enough in photographs of streets and diners, hotels and storage rooms, but it is in the portraits of people that it is most crucially discovered. You can find Wrighton's subjects today in many small cities, quite likely in more of them in 2010 than in the 1970s because numerous cities have lost their major employers and the burden of economic problems weighs even heavier.
So he has recorded a minor history with major ramifications, a history that is twice alive, once in its current echoes across the nation and once in lasting images. Photography, life, and history keep company everywhere.»
Vicky Goldberg
29th April 2010 until 23th June 2010
Sex and Crime
In 1998 the song Männer sind Schweine (Men Are Pigs), by the German pop group Die Ärzte, was played day and night on many German radios stations. Availing itself of a humour that takes some getting used to, the song makes exaggerated points regarding the relationship between women and men.
Twelve years later, relations between women and men are still subject to considerable conflict. No other Western society, besides the United States, exhibits such an extreme and – depending on the region – heterogeneous treatment of the topics of violence and sexuality.
The right to own firearms, countless overcrowded prisons, and blatant brutality in many areas of every day life. The largest porn industry in the world, on the one hand, and the puritanical bigotry of religious fundamentalists, on the other.
By presenting two types of photographs from the USA, anonymous pin-up photos from the 1950s to the 1970s and mug shots (police photos) from the 1930s to the 1960s, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek attempt will be made to visually realize the previously mentioned song.
In addition to being engaging photographs in their own rite, the images present us with an impression of the period and the way the greatest country in the Western hemisphere deals with the two eternal topics of human coexistence: violence and sexuality.
25th February 2010 until 25th April 2010
Focus Japan
«Focus Japan» is the first of our exhibitions about Japanese Photography this year.
We start with an overview of our collection. Alongside watercoloured Albumines from the 19th century, at that time mainly produced for travellers from the West, we show samples from the sixities and seventies, two important decades for Japanese Photography, as well as some works of the younger generation. Among others are: Rinko Kawauchi, Ruji Miyamoto, Ikko Narahara, Koji Onaka, Toshio Shibata und Issei Suda.
Alongside original prints you will also find a large range of Japanese Photography books. Compared to the US and Europe there are still only few galleries and public institutions in Japan that organise photography exhibitions. Therefore photobooks carry special importance for the reception of photography in Japan.
Works, often as a series of photos, are produced from beginning with a photobook in mind. Like film clips photobooks show the manifold facettes of Japanese life. Young photographers in their early thirties like Rinko Kawauchi have already published a dozen of books. Thus they follow the tradition of today worldwide famous old masters like Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama or Eikoh Hosoe, who, before their international careers, mostly showed their works in books published by themselves, and thus decisively had contributed to the importance and appreciation of Japanese Photography.
10th November 2009 until End of December 2009
Ray K. Metzker has quietly been making extraordinary photographs for the better part of six decades. Today he is recognized as one of the great masters of American photography, a virtuoso who has pursued his chosen medium passionately for fifty years. Subsequent to the first publication «City Stills» (published in 1999 by Prestel) and its great monograph «Light Lines» (published in 2008 as a co-production by the Steidl publishing house and the Musée de l’Élysée), AutoMagic is a book dedicated exclusively to Metzker’s photography of the automobile.
Accompanying the exhibition we've published a book «AutoMagic».
22. September 2009 until October 2009
The LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY, NEW YORK showed works by the photographic artists Bruce Wrighton, Ray Metzker, David Graham, Helen Levitt
Spring/Summer 2009
Exhibition with photographs by Frauke Eigen from her book »SHOKU«
