Barbara Klemm. Street Pictures and Ed van der Elsken. Amsterdam
Kicken Berlin
Ed van der Elsken: Amsterdam, Nieuwmarket
1958 © Estate of the artist/ Nederlands fotomuseum
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Kicken Berlin presents Barbara Klemm and Ed van der Elsken two masters of street photography.
Barbara Klemm worked for more than three decades as a photographer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. On her reporting trips through the big cities of all the continents of the world, she created a far-ranging oeuvre of street pictures. Whether between the skyscrapers of New York, at a bus station in Johannesburg or on the streets of Moscow, Klemm had an instinct for catching people in perfectly ordinary and yet surprising moments, and so succeeded in making pictures of impressive intensity and concentration.
After returning from Paris in the year 1955, Ed van der Elsken documented the lively bustle of his home city of Amsterdam, which constituted the central focus and pivot of his creative work. Like Klemm, van der Elsken is also principally concerned with human beings in their environment. His works are characterised by the new subjectivism of the post-war years, as also to be found in his contemporaries Robert Frank and William Klein.
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Theme
Urban Lifestyles
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Artist(s)
Barbara Klemm, Ed van der Elsken
Duration of the exhibition
16.10. - 18.12.2010
Vernissage
15.10.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Di-Sa 14-18 h
Location
Kicken Berlin
Linienstraße 155/ 161a
10115 Berlin
T 0049 30 28877882
Public transport connections
U6 Oranienburger Tor
S1, 2, 25 Oranienburger Str.
Tram M1, M6
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