"Light and shadow. Photos from Germany "- Barbara Klemm
In the framework of Week of Germany in St. Petersburg at the State Museum and Exhibition Centre will host an exhibition ROSPHOTO famous German press photographer Barbara Klemm
ROSPHOTO, April 25 - May 27, 2012
St. Petersburg, St. . Bolshaya Morskaya, 35
In the framework of Week of Germany in St. Petersburg at the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO from April 25 to May 27 will host an exhibition of the famous German press photographer Barbara Klemm.
Most of the papers presented at the exhibition was made for the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" Klemm which has been cooperating for many years. The value of these photos are not only their undoubted artistic merit, but also their historical importance of having the most important for a reporter provided a gift at the right time in the right place and the ability to "grab shot", which later became the symbol of an era, Klemm reflected in his pictures the history of Germany since the early 1960s to the present day. During the Cold War it was one of the few journalists in West Germany, which was allowed to work in the GDR. Now these images are no longer perceived as reports from the two parallel worlds: a true chronicle of the history of a single country, divided by the Wall. Portrait of Chancellor Willy Brandt of Germany adjacent to a portrait of the GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker, and a report on the visit of the American Communist Angela Davis at the Festival of Youth and Students - with photography by Andy Warhol, who arrived in Frankfurt.
BARBARA TERMINAL Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker East Berlin, 1979 Source: | BARBARA TERMINAL fall of the Berlin Wall. 10 November 1989 Source: |
The largest section of the exhibition is devoted to the unification of Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall - a key event of modern European history. Klemm has recorded it in dozens of black and white photographs: she was filming the crowd cheering on both sides of the border, the first crossings on the border passages, the opening of the Brandenburg Gate and hauling on the walls of the memorial plates.
However, the subject of interest does not always become policy: Klemm - creator of the impressive gallery of sketches of household, industrial landscapes and portraits of public and cultural figures from around the world (Alfred Hitchcock, Claudia Schiffer, Heinrich Böll, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and others). One of her first editorial shoot was dedicated to guest workers - then still a new phenomenon for West Germany, and in 1970 she took off enthusiastically rallies and demonstrations.
Barbara Klemm does not recognize digital camera and still shoots on film. In her photo exhibitions can not see color photos of all her pictures - black and white. "The text on the strip - dark gray, photographs - black and white. Thus, the material and the picture are on an equal footing, - she said. - In the color image photos released too, and the text on the background and does is lost. In my opinion, it can not be called a newspaper ».
BARBARA TERMINAL Leonid Brezhnev and Willy Brandt Bonn, 1973 Source: | BARBARA TERMINAL Mikhail Gorbachev, East Berlin, 1989 Source: |
In connection with the opening of the exhibition, Barbara Klemm is scheduled to visit St. Petersburg to present their work of St Petersburg.
Barbara Klemm was born December 27, 1939 in Munster ( Westphalia), grew up in Karlsruhe. In 1956-1958 she studied at the portrait studio in Karlsruhe.
In 1959 he began working in the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" and the manufacturer of clichés lab, and in parallel - freelancers. From 1970 to 2004 has been an editorial photographer literary department, and department policy in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung».
Since 1992, a member of the Academy of Art in Berlin-Brandenburg (Department of Film and media arts). Since 2000 - professor of photography at the Higher School of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. Currently, Barbara Klemm, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Since 1969, it took more than 20 solo exhibitions around the world.
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