The Dark Room
24 statements from 12 decades
Lette Verein
Meiko Herrmann: GAZA - Landscapes of Destruction, 2009
© Meiko Herrmann
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This year the Lette Verein celebrates its 120th anniversary as a photographic training establishment. When the Lette Verein Photographic School opened in the year 1890, it marked a new development in the vocational training open to women. The Photographic School was the first college institution to offer a professional training in photography. Leading personalities of the Photographic School included Marie Kundt (from 1891) and Anna Köppen (from 1900). In 1910 the school opened a faculty for men, which was directed by Carola Lohde. In 1962 the Photographic School was closed. Its technical departments became faculties of Berlins Technische Berufsfachschule [Technical and Vocational College] and its Photography department was transferred to the Gewerbliche Berufsfachschule [Commercial and Vocational College], later in 2003 becoming the department of Photographic Design at the Berufsfachschule für Design [Vocational College for Design].
On the occasion of this anniversary we are showing representative works by 24 photography graduates over a period of 120 years two for each decade.
Theme
Education training competitions
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Artist(s)
Toragoro Ariga, Marianne Breslauer, Erna Lendvai-Dircksen, Hedda Walther u.a.
Curator(s)
Dr. Katharina Hausel
Duration of the exhibition
27.10. - 10.12.2010
Vernissage
26.10.2010, 18 h
Opening times
Mo-Do 8-18 h, Fr 8-17 h
Location
Lette Verein
Viktoria-Luise-Platz 6
10777 Berlin
T 0049 30 21994600
Public transport connections
U1, 2, 3 Wittenbergplatz
U4 Viktoria-Luise-Platz
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