CULTURE DESIGN, POSTER DESIGN, ADVERTISEMENT, CITYLIGHTS, SOCIAL MEDIA, EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
EXHIBITION — INTRACTABLE AND UNTAMED: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AROUND 1979, MUSEUM LUDWIG, 2014
In times of sweeping social transformation, photography becomes an important medium. After all, as an image of reality it possesses an immediate impact, one that the photo theorist Roland Barthes called “untamed” in his 1979 book Camera Ludica. It is this direct connection to reality, “the awakening of intractable reality,” that makes the documentary approach a significant artistic attitude in periods of radical change. This applies, for instance, to the year 1979 — the beginning of the so-called crisis decades, whose consequences continue to effect economic and political conditions worldwide today. Artists and photographer observed and documented the global change over extended periods of time, by and large, in the places where they lived. The exhibition brings together thirteen photo series by such photographers and artists as Robert Adams, Ishiuchi Miyako, Ute Klophaus, Candida Höfer and Boris Mikhailov. (Text: Museum Ludwig)
POSTER DESIGN — CITYLIGHTS COLOGNE
BANNER — FACADE, MUSEUM LUDWIG
EXHIBITION TYPOGRAPHY — MUSEUM LUDWIG
EDITITORIAL DESIGN — EXHIBITION CATALOGUE — UM / AROUND 1979
CULTURE DESIGN, POSTER DESIGN, ADVERTISEMENT, CITYLIGHTS, SOCIAL MEDIA
DAS MUSEUM DER FOTOGRAFIE: EINE REVISION, MUSEUM LUDWIG
In 1906 the chemist Erich Stenger (1878—1957) began systematically collecting for a (technical) museum of photography, which was never instituted. Today his collection is part of the Museum Ludwig — that is, an art museum. On view are, among other things, landscape photographs from the nineteenth century, aerial photographs from World War I, portraits framed in jewel-like fashion, and prizewinning animal pictures from the first half of the twentieth century. Stenger’s museum was meant to be an encyclopedia of photography — to be sure, he was indisputably a man of the nineteenth century.
The objects and Stenger’s classification system will be presented for the first time. (Text: Museum Ludwig)
