The Soul of the picture
Galerie Colognialwaren
SI-one: Schlüsselbild
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'With one eye that is wide open the photographer looks through the viewer; with the other, which is closed, he looks into his own soul.' (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
The Native Americans believed that to photograph a person was to steal his soul. The old cameras were known as 'soul catchers', and the Greek word photography means 'the writing of light'. But what does it mean for the soul of the picture, when the manipulative possibilities recede into the infinite?
The theme of this exhibition is photography's confrontation with the picture as an object, in this age of digital graphics. What is a photograph, when it can be produced digitally, either in whole or in part? Does the picture lose its 'soul' when digital tools are used? How much reality must a picture contain to be a photo?
The exhibition shows work by the photographers Angela Kröll, Anne Guillin, Oona Eberle, Vera Hofmann, Jane Dulfaqar, Nicole Woischwill and SI-one, each of them with her own individual approach to this theme.
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Artist(s)
Jane Dulfaqar, Oona Eberle, Anne Guillin, Vera Hofmann, Angela Kröll, SI-one, Nicole Woischwill
Curator(s)
Simone Wasner
Duration of the exhibition
25.10. - 21.11.2008
Vernissage
24.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Di-Fr 16-20 h,
So 16-20 h
and by arrangement
Location
Galerie Colognialwaren
Richardplatz 20
12055 Berlin
T 0049 30 68809063
Public transport connections
S Sonnenallee;
U Karl-Marx-Straße;
Bus M41 Hertzbergplatz/Mareschstraße
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