| | | |  | | | Matt Black: Pleasant Point, Maine, USA, 2019
© Matt Black / Magnum Photos | | | | | | | | | #PROTESTSGOVIRAL - Images of Activism on Instagram | | | | 25 September 2020 ‐ 3 January 2021 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 24 September, 6-9 p.m. | | |  | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Matt Black: Flint, Michigan, USA, 2015
© Matt Black / Magnum Photos | | | | | | | 25 September 2020 ‐ 3 January 2021 | | | | The American Magnum photographer Matt Black (*1970) has continually documented the connection between migration, poverty, agriculture, and the environment in his native California and in southern Mexico. For his project "AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY", he traveled over 100,000 miles through 46 states, including California, Oregon, Louisiana, Tennessee, and New York. During his road trip, Black visited communities with a poverty rate of over 20 percent, forming geographic areas that can be connected on a map. Black thus succeeded in portraying poverty as a collective element in the United States which links people whose lives take place beyond the American dream. "The most important key to understanding this work and why I’m doing it is where I come from," Black says about the project. "My region, and many across the country, are not represented by the great American myth, the basic idea of America." | | | | | |  | | | Matt Black: Commemoration of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA, 2016
© Matt Black / Magnum Photos | | | | | | 78 photographs and objects from these trips form the focus of the exhibition "AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY", curated by Ingo Taubhorn along with the photographer, which will be presented as a worldwide premiere. "With the exhibition 'AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY' by Matt Black in the House of Photography, following Lauren Greenfield and Paolo Pellegrin, we are continuing the series of committed documentary photographers who focus on sociopolitical and social conditions of life. With his large-format, square, black-and-white pictures and overwhelming landscape panoramas, Black shows us a country far from unlimited possibilities and an American society that is largely characterized by poverty, lack of opportunity, and political resignation," says Ingo Taubhorn, curator of the House of Photography.
"AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY" focuses on the most disadvantaged places and their inhabitants in the United States, with photographs ranging from the deserts in the southwest to the Black Belt in the southeast and the post-industrial former factory towns in the Midwest and northeast. The results are impressive: while photography can help to humanize facts and figures, maps show the extent of the problem. This demonstration of individual cases of desperation becomes a spotlight for a nationwide topic. | | | | | |  | | | Matt Black: Storefront, Piedmont, Missouri, USA, 2016
© Matt Black / Magnum Photos | | | | | | | Matt Black has received numerous awards, including the W. Eugene Smith Award (2015), the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2016), and most recently in 2018 a prize for his work in Puerto Rico. He has received additional awards from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. | | | | | |  | | | Matt Black: El Paso, Texas, USA, 2015
© Matt Black / Magnum Photos | | | | | | | A publication about "AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY" containing 80 photos in portrait format (290x580mm) will be published by Magnum Photos. 68 pages, English. Price 24,90 Euro | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Jerry Berndt: Detroit, 1970
© The Jerry Berndt Estate 2020 | | | | | | | 25 September – 3 January 2021 | | | | Panel discussion: with Nils Grossien (The Estate of Jerry Berndt), Marie-Pascale Lescot (The Estate of Jerry Berndt), Sabine Schnakenberg (Curator/Deichtorhallen), Moderation Ute Thon (art-Magazin): Friday, 25 September, 7 p.m. | | | | | |  | | | Jerry Berndt: Detroit, 1973
© The Jerry Berndt Estate 2020 | | | | | | | The American photographer Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) documented the period between the 1960s and 1980s in America like no other photographer. By combining photojournalism with documentary and street photography, he succeeded in presenting a unique view of American society over a span of thirty years. Precisely because Berndt was part of the American protest movement, he not only persuasively visualizes central issues of recent American history such as the civil rights movement, the rights of African-Americans, patriotism, homelessness, as well as the vehement protests against the Vietnam War, racism, and nuclear power. Against a dull, dreary American cityscape, he presents the social and cultural living conditions of people who are overshadowed by a deep melancholy. | | | | | |  | | | Jerry Berndt: Milwaukee, WI, 1969
© The Jerry Berndt Estate 2020 | | | | | | Until the 1980s, Berndt consistently followed political conflict and systematically portrayed the spectrum of American people and urban landscapes, from the middle and working classes to the residents of America’s often ignored ghettos. With series on the anti-Vietnam movement in the late 1960s, which he personally participated in, and on homelessness in America in the early 1980s, he dealt with issues that examine a country’s unresolved conflicts. Unpretentious and precise, he photographed scenes of everyday life in America that subtly reflect conflicts: shopping centers, diners, parking lots, and cars as well as beauty pageants and parades.
His works from this period show how Americans presented themselves culturally and socially, and at the same time reveal the foundation of America’s changing urban infrastructure. He visualizes an important, uncomfortable transition phase in American history and highlights the literal and ironically broken beauty of the United States. | | | | | |  | | | Jerry Berndt: Seabrook, 1976
© The Jerry Berndt Estate 2020 | | | | | | | Over his 40-year career, Jerry Berndt also worked for internationally renowned publications such as the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Newsweek, and Paris Match. As a photojournalist he documented the genocide in Rwanda (2003–04) and the civil war in Haiti (1986–91). Berndt taught at Boston University’s College of Fine Art and at the University of Massachusetts. His works are represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. | | | | | |  | | | Jerry Berndt: Detroit, 1971
© The Jerry Berndt Estate 2020 | | | | | | Publication: "Jerry Berndt. Beautiful America". Published by Steidl, edited by Maik Schlüter. 216 pages, 97 illustrations, Tritone, linen cover, 22 x 19,2 cm. Englisch. ISBN 978-3-86930-898-2. Price: 38 EUR
The exhibition is a cooperation with the Jerry Berndt Estate. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Ken Schles | | | | | | #PROTESTSGOVIRAL - Images of Activism on Instagram | | | | 25 September – 3 January 2021 | | | Since their emergence on Twitter in 2007 and their use on Instagram starting in 2010, hashtags have become the universal tagging tool in image-based social media. For the first time, they made it easy to filter and thus find posts. Since they can be used by anyone regardless of hierarchy, hashtags enable a broad audience to make public statements and to have direct access to information. Apart from restrictions related to income, gender, and ethnicities, they offer a way for interests to gain visibility and feedback. The desire to form collectives and easily launch campaigns has recently turned hashtags into effective slogans and has catapulted them from the purely digital realm onto the streets.
The exhibition format #ProtestsGoViral developed by the House of Photography ties in with the Jerry Berndt and Matt Black exhibitions by addressing social problems and encourages visitors to reflect on the importance of hashtags in current photography focused on activism. It recognizes the posted images as documents of their time and sees the use of hashtags as a phenomenon that is already part of the current history of photography. This media revolution is democratizing documentary photography and making it one of the most important means of communication.
#ProtestsGoViral is based on a selection of viral hashtags on Instagram, the most popular image-based online platform in the United States. The posts shown are updated by the minute, in keeping with the fast pace of social media posts. This compilation thus offers direct insight into various pressing areas of political activism in the United States. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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