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Actualités : Exposition « Amateurfotografie. Vom Bauhaus zu Instagram » (Hambourg, 3 octobre 2019-12 janvier 2020)

Du 3 octobre 2019 au 12 janvier 2020, le Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe de Hambourg accueille une exposition intitulée « Amateurfotografie. Vom Bauhaus zu Instagram ».

« In the exhibition Amateur Photography. From Bauhaus to Instagram, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) takes a closer look at amateur photography and its innovative power. Ever since the invention of photography, the amateur has played a key role in its development, with artists at the Bauhaus in particular recognizing the creative freedom afforded by the casual use of the camera. The democratic and political potential of amateur photography was likewise discovered in the 1920s. Both aspects are still of great importance for the way we deal with images. Amateur photography in the early twentieth century heralded the birth of a mass phenomenon, which today takes the form of an inundation of digital images.

Every day, billions of smartphone owners around the world take snapshots of their daily lives. They post their pictures on various social media channels, chiefly Instagram, in order to share them with friends, but also with people they have never met. Photographs have become a central medium of communication, making amateur photography more relevant than ever before. The exhibition compares the pictorial worlds of historical and contemporary amateur photographers, shedding light on their motivations and goals, and examining whether and how the digital amateur photography practised today on a massive scale differs from its historical precursors. Over 200 exhibits by numerous amateur photographers, classical avant-garde artists, and their contemporary counterparts will be on show, along with magazines and journals, books, and digital documents.

Sponsored by the Fonds Bauhaus heute of Kulturstiftung des Bundes, supported by Mondriaan Fund. »

Plus d’informations sur le site du musée.

Sur le catalogue d’exposition, voir le site de l’éditeur.

Illustration : Wilhelm Carl Friedrich Bandelow (1870–1923), Filmschachteln mit kleinfor-matigen Fotografien, vers 1910, Hambourg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Photo : (c) MKG


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
viraben (16 octobre 2019). Actualités : Exposition « Amateurfotografie. Vom Bauhaus zu Instagram » (Hambourg, 3 octobre 2019-12 janvier 2020). Amateurs en sciences (France, 1850-1950) : une histoire par en bas. Consulté le 8 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/b479


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