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Exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
The exhibition „Nude Visions – 150 Years Body Images in Photography“ will be on view from January 29 - April 25, 2010 at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
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Birgitta Thaysen
INNER OCEAN In her black-and-white portrait photographs Birgitta Thaysen captures her sitters in moments of inward-turning reverie. The photographer finds her models, of all ages and walks of life, in London and Düsseldorf. Her portraits are united by the use of the same attribute...
ISBN 978-3-86828-076-0
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Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel
The work of Lillian Bassman (*1917) exudes a captivating elegance and a sure sense of style. As longstanding art director for Harper’s Bazaar, she shaped both the changing style of the magazine’s layout and the fashion photography of the 1940s to 60s. In the 1950s she introduced a new feminine ideal – long-limbed and swan-necked – into her atmospherically charged scenes. By experimenting with various photographic exposures and darkroom techniques, she lent her black-and-white photographs a unique, almost painterly quality.
ISBN 978-3-86828-101-9
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Esther Haase
Rock´n Old „Under the patronage of actresses Iris Berben, Angelika Milster, Sonja Kichberger, Gudrun Landgrebe and Hannelore Hoger ort he renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, whose master students designed clothes for the models featuring in shoots, spezial attention was brought to the subject of age – attention which it absolutely merited."
ISBN 978-3-86828-109-5
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Brigitte Niedermair
Madame Hirsch Renate Hirsch Giacomuzzi leads a life that most people would find too luxurious not to have been deliberately staged. Photographer Brigitte Niedermair followed Madame Hirsch with her camera over the course of a year – at official occasions and in her own private realm.
ISBN 978-3-86828-106-4
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Von Rodin bis Giacometti
Plastik der Moderne This publication provides a long overdue German-language survey of sculpture between the years 1900 and 1945. Instead of recounting a »history of styles,« distinctive individual works are examined from diverse perspectives.
ISBN 978-3-86828-104-0
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MARC CHAGALL
Chagall surréaliste – Chagall littéraire Marc Chagall’s prints, and in particular his extensive illustration sequences for literary and religious texts, date from the years following his return to Western Europe in 1922.
ISBN 978-3-86828-112-5
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