Fascinated by outsiders and subcultures, photographer and documentary filmmaker, Danny Lyon, developed a more subjective and partisan form of reportage.
Tag Archives | Switzerland
SITUATIONS/Placeholder
SITUATIONS/Placeholder from #68 to #79 now at Fotomuseum Winterthur.
SITUATIONS / Proletariats
The latest cluster, launched on 28 May 2016, is Proletariats (SITUATION #39 to 40). This cluster looks at issues of labour from a historical perspective.
PROVOKE: Between Protest and Performance, photography in Japan 1960–1975
A lively installation that features works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikō Hosoe, Kazuo Kitai, Daidō Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Shōmei Tōmatsu and many more.
SITUATIONS / (in)stability
The new cluster traces productive moments of (in)stability in the history and contemporary experience of photography/film.
TOTAL RECORDS – Vinyl & Photography
With over 500 record covers, Total Records shows the innovative and artistic interaction between vinyl and photography.
SITUATIONS #23 to #27 – Vanishing
From the vanishing of a person or a social reality to the fading of an image.
SITUATIONS #20 – #22: Formats
As the lifespan of data storage formats decreases, the Internet provides unprecedented modes of production and distribution…
Every Photograph is an Enigma
Photographs often seem familiar and understandable, a visual common sense intimately related to our daily lives.
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs – EURASIA
We no longer have a feeling for real distances anymore. Our western world is plugged in 24 hours a day…
SITUATIONS #9 to #18 – Seeing Machines
As every citizen with a smartphone, laptop or tablet knows, photography is becoming increasingly ‘distributed’. Driven by the vast replicative power of digital algorithms, photographs now move with tremendous speed across a wide variety of devices and platforms. The distinction between the still and the moving image is becoming
PAUL STRAND – Photography and Film for the 20th Century
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents the first major retrospective in Europe of the work of Paul Strand (1890–1976), one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. The exhibition reveals the multiplicity of his practice, from his early efforts to secure photography’s position as a modernist art form, to his embrace of film-making, to his important post-war […]
Peter Piller – Document Control
In the mid 1990s the German artist Peter Piller worked at a Hamburg press agency while studying art. His job was to collect clippings and monitor where and how the paid ads of regional advertising clients and companies actually appeared in print.
Viviane Sassen – In and Out of Fashion
With her highly original and at times provocative practice, Viviane Sassen is one of Europe’s most exciting photographers. In and Out of Fashion is the first full retrospective of her fashion work.
