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artists & participants
Berenice Abbott,
Bravo Manuel Alvarez,
Gertrud Arndt,
Aurel Bauh,
Herbert Bayer,
Lotte Beese,
Aenne Biermann,
Ilse Bing,
Karl Blossfeldt,
Anton Giulio Bragaglia,
Brassai,
Marianne Breslauer,
Anne W. Brigman,
Gertrude Leroy Brown,
Francis Bruguiere,
Clarence Sinclair Bull,
Max Burchartz,
Claude Cahun,
Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Paul Citroen,
Langdon Coburn,
Edmund Collein,
Horacio Coppola,
Luc Dietrich,
Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis,
Hugo Erfurth,
Walker Evans,
Andreas Feininger,
Lore Feininger,
Lyonel Feininger,
Hans Finsler,
Jaromir Funke,
John Gutmann,
Arvid Gutschow,
Johan Hagemeyer,
Paul Edmund Hahn,
Jaroslava Hatlakova,
Raoul Hausmann,
John P. Heins,
Florence Henri,
J. Jay Hirz,
Irene Hoffmann,
Ewald Hoinkis,
Bernard Shea Horne,
George Hoyningen-Huene,
Lotte Jacobi,
Roman Karmen,
Andre Kertesz,
Edmund Kesting,
Imre Kinszki,
Gustav Klutsis,
Francois Kollar,
Germaine Krull,
Harry Lachman,
Walter R. Latimer,
Jiri Lehovec,
Helmar Lerski,
Otto Lindig,
El Lissitzky,
Edward Weston
curators
press release only in german
Masterworks of Modern Photography
The Thomas Walther Collection
14.09.2021 - 13.02.2022
In 2001 and 2017, The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired more than 350 photographs from the collector Thomas Walther. This collection, which is now one of the pillars of MoMA’s modern collection, is presented for the first time in France in an exhibition of some 230 images.
Comprising iconic works from the first half of the twentieth century, the exhibition provides a history of the European and American photographic avant-gardes.
Through the works of a hundred or so photographers, from Berenice Abbott to Karl Blossfeldt, from Claude Cahun to El Lissitzky, from Edward Weston to André Kertész, this fusion of masterpieces and lesser-known images traces the history of modernity in photography.
Mixing genres and approaches—architecture and urban landscapes, portraits and nudes, reportage, photomontage, experimentation, etc.—the exhibition delves deep into the artistic networks of the inter-war period, from the Bauhaus to Surrealist Paris, via Moscow and New York.