todays exhibitions

From Robert Capa to Donovan Wylie

The exhibition illustrates the phases of modern photojournalism, tracing the more than sixty-year history of Magnum Photos alongside the changing demands of the mass media and its users. A focal point of the exhibition is classic photo reportage—a format traditionally printed on paper, as seen in book and magazine publications as well as exhibition prints. The expanding presence of photography in the print media is evidenced in the photographs and selected magazine publications of the four Magnum founders. After all, it wasn’t particular photos that made Magnum extraordinary, but the agency’s strong presence in the media as a source for professional visual material. Magazines like Life, Look, Paris Match, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Stern, The Sunday Times Magazine, and Fortune on display in the exhibition demonstrate the various channels of distribution. Films, videos, and installations by the current generation of Magnum photographers reveal how dramatically the goals and target audiences have changed: the photojournalistic work of their predecessors has given way to images that no longer circulate primarily in magazines or print media, but that find their place as artworks on museum walls.

The photographers Christopher Anderson, Jonas Bendiksen, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Antoine D’Agata, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Trent Parke, Paolo Pellegrin, George Rodger, David Seymour, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, Ilkka Uimonen, Peter van Agtmael, Donovan Wylie

Source: C/O Berlin