It is always worth famous photographs again. A large image does not fade, Yes, it is historically, but never antiquated. In this sense, it can be shown in the exhibition “time-stuff*inside” the event center space for photography in Berlin-Kreuzberg, as well as a retrospective of how as a refresher to understand that, As the repetition of an image of knowledge, which must not be lost, if we want to look at the world in the future with a clear vision.
Andreas Kilb
feuilleton correspondent in Berlin.
F. A. Z.
It so happens that all of the shots that are seen in Berlin, by photographers of the Agency Magnum come. Not all have belonged to the time when the photos were taken, the Agency, but everyone is at some point joined the exclusive community, the Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson and two other colleagues after the Second world war have established.
The world as it was and is
Exclusively because it is not the professional success, but a consciousness of the appeal associated with it, those who has donated to the community and still creates, the Magnum photographers belong to. You could call this consciousness as the Ethos of the Visual, or practiced humanity in the technical Medium, but you would have said still a lot less than any individual image of the exhibition, the viewer communicates.
in the recording, which has made the Briton, Chris Steele-Perkins in 1980 in the hunger region of Karamoja in Uganda. You can see the bare legs of the adult are recognizable, emaciated to the bone, and in addition, a kauerndes child. At first glance, the girl seems to be with his scrawny little Arms to beg for food, but then you see that it is even for this gesture to be very weak. It has placed the hands under the head to keep from falling, to preserve a Rest of Dignity in a Situation which disgraces all who participate in it, even those who can only watch.