Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin - Exhibitions (in chronological order)

Microphotography

Beauty beyond the Visible

Museum für Fotografie, Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek, SMB

organised by: Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek, SMB, und Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung

Manfred Kage: Charismon, flüssige Kristalle
2003 © Kage-Mikrofotografie
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This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of a photographic genre that has always hovered between scientific precision and artistic fantasy. It shows works emanating from modern art and contemporary photography which have been inspired by the worlds of the microcosm. It also includes works which were created in a purely scientific context, albeit to the highest aesthetic standards before avant garde photographers took possession of microphotography for purposes of artistic production, and gave it the status of an art form.

The range presented extends from Robert Kochs photographs of bacteria and Johann Diedrich Möllers diatom preparations to studies by Alfred Ehrhardt and Carl Struwe, and electronic grid microscope photographs by Becher student Claudia Fährenkemper. It reveals a wide panorama of fascinating images of all that remains hidden from the human eye.

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Theme

Photography and science

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Artist(s)

Fritz Brill, Otto Croy, Hans-Ulrich Danzebrink, Alfred Ehrhardt, Eyeofscience, Claudia Fährenkemper, Andreas Gebert, Martin Gerlach, Ernst Haeckel, Hans Hauswaldt, Heinrich Heidersberger, Konrad Hoffmeister, Manfred Kage, Robert Koch, August Kreyenkamp, Yuko Labuda, Edgar Lissel, Johann Diedrich Möller, Nora Schattauer, Romanus Schmehlik, Eva-Maria Schön, Carl Strüwe u.v.m.