James Nachtwey. Memoria
The retrospective "Memoria" at Fotografiska Berlin opens up spaces, times, and perspectives. James Nachtwey's work showcases four decades of documentary photography – and the question of what it means to bear witness.
Contemporary history in pictures: Events from politics, society and culture as reflected in photography.
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The retrospective "Memoria" at Fotografiska Berlin opens up spaces, times, and perspectives. James Nachtwey's work showcases four decades of documentary photography – and the question of what it means to bear witness.
Street photographs from Cuba, taken in 1990 in Camagüey and Playa La Boca. Contemporary historical observations on everyday mobility between scarcity, creativity and community.
Published several times and now part of an ARTE film: the photo report “Kinderladen Kiel 1970”. During the research, further, previously unpublished images were discovered.
Lee Miller (1907-1977) was one of the most outstanding photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition in the Bucerius Kunst Forum makes her multifaceted life and work visible in its entirety using 150 photos from the period 1929 to 1973.
"Strike! Photo stories of labor disputes" is the Museum of Labor's contribution to this year's Triennial of Photography in Hamburg. In collaboration with the photo archive of the Ruhr Museum Essen, the exhibition will examine disputes in the world of work over the last 60 years.
On May 19, 1972, the "Red Army Faction" carried out a bomb attack on the Axel Springer publishing house in Hamburg. The attack was part of a series of RAF actions in the "bloody May" of 1972.
A day in Moscow in the summer of 1970: encounters with friendly people who pinned their hopes on the beginning of détente between East and West.
The Berlin Academy of Arts is showing the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of John Heartfield (1891-1968), the pioneer of political photomontage.
The German Historical Museum in Berlin is dedicating a comprehensive special exhibition to the German-American political scientist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975).
For his autobiography “Despite Everything,” the composer, poet, singer and guitarist Hannes Wader chose a motif from a photo report by Holger Rüdel about the hippie scene in the capital of the Netherlands.
“Actor and observer shows moving everyday life” is the headline of a review of the exhibition “Time Blend. Photographs by Holger Rüdel”, published in “M”, the media policy magazine from ver.di.
In a scientific paper, Julia Molina analyzed the motif “Revolution” from the picture series “Kinderladen 1970” by Holger Rüdel.