1936 was a decisive year for Herbert List: one year after the Nuremberg Race Laws went into effect, his private life was a matter of general suspicion. Artist friends such as Erika and Klaus Mann and Andreas Feininger had already ...

The exhibition “Essences. Four Decades of Photographs” features works from Ute and Werner Mahler’s collaborative series Monalisen der Vorstädte (Mona Lisas of the Suburbs, 2011), photographs they shot for the magazine Sibylle, and early works by Werner Mahler ...

Hosam Katan, born 1994 in Aleppo, was only eighteen when he started working as a photojournalist for the Aleppo Media Center during the Syrian Civil War. His evocative pictures of a war-torn city struggling to survive were soon acquired by ...

The photographer’s first solo show in Berlin consists of black-and-white photographs from the years in West Berlin just preceding the fall of the Wall. The enfant terrible of Czechoslovakian photography, Libuše Jarcovjáková (born 1952), also known as ...

“I wish for a history of the look. For photography is the appearance of my self as another; a cunning dissociation of the consciousness of identity. ... ” (Roland Barthes) One’s own skin as a mirror of the ego: in another ...

Birgit Kleber looks people squarely in the face, sometimes for minutes on end. And they look back: directly, intensely. It’s a fascinating, immovable intensity of the gaze. Sometimes those being photographed keep their eyes closed, or remain hidden behind ...

In their works, the artists Ernst Wilhelm Grüter, Ulrich Grüter, and Simon Menner address ideas of fortification and democracy.

While the autodidact Ernst Wilhelm Grüter’s photographs capture pictures of everyday life in the context of urban ...

The Münzenberg Forum Berlin, of which FMP1 is a member, presents the work of the winners of its internationally acclaimed photography competition “But the conditions—that’s not how they are!”as part of the European Month of Photography ...

1968 is considered to be the seminal year of the 1960s cultural revolution. It’s also the year Hipgnosis was born, the legendary British photo design studio run by Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson, which created some of the most ...

Images and text about the Cuban Revolution of 1953-–59 are the only advertisements allowed in the communist island state of Fidel Castro, whose goal was to found an anti-imperialist country based on Marxism.
Today, most Cubans live from tourism ...

Mansilla is a village in the north of Spain. In 1960, during Franco’s dictatorship, it was evacuated to build a dam. The residents of a village that had been there for generations lost their home. Like a memorial, the ...

The Maison de Verre (1931) is a house in Paris built by Pierre Chareau. Its façade, a nontransparent wall of glass, transformed it into an icon of modern architecture. Michael Carapetian’s photographs from 1965, when he spent several ...

Six years ago, Ute Lindner created a large-scale cyanotype 39 x 21 feet in size for the Löwenpalais. First, she photographed the window façade of the main exhibition space 1:1; she then replaced the view to the ...

Based on the long-term photographic project “Archiv für aktuelles Nichts”, in which he explored the aesthetic of the random and worthless, as well as legacies, Michael Disqué founded the Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts in early 2017 to ...