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Petra Gerwers: Time Travelers
On 23 February 2022, the new exhibition “Time Travelers” by German photographer Petra Gerwers will open at the Michael Horbach Foundation in Cologne.
This project, which Gerwers started seven years ago and shot mainly with a Leica Monochrom camera, revolves around the discussion of hopes and dreams and the reality of one’s life – and how the depicted persons deal with and communicate them.
Each “time traveler” is portrayed in a three-part series – consisting of a photo of themselves as a child, a handwritten letter by the time traveler to their child self, and a current photo of the protagonist, taken by the photographer Petra Gerwers. Together they tell a life story.
These individual narratives provide a stage for each of the 25 protagonists, including:
- Nick Ut, AP photographer (photographed the “Napalm Girl of Vietnam,”
- Phan Thi Kim Phuc), Los Angeles
- Kim Phuc, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Canada
- Kristian Schuller, fashion photographer, Berlin
- Klaus Honnef, art historian, art critic, exhibition curator, art photography theorist, Cologne
- Michael Horbach, art collector and founder of the Horbach Foundation, Cologne
- Wolfgang Zurborn, photographer, teaches photography at various higher education institutions, Cologne
- Andrea Lüdke, actress, Hamburg
- Ivo von Renner, photographer, Hamburg
- Henry Dallal, photographer, Iran
- Rolf Scheider, casting director and entertainer, Paris and Berlin
- Saskia Brieger, stewardess, Erkelenz
- Thomas Gerwers, publisher, ProfiFoto magazine, Mönchengladbach
- Peter Franck, photographer, Stuttgart
- Frank Dürrach, co-founder and teacher, Fotoschule Köln, Cologne
- Damian Zimmermann, photographer, Cologne
- Petra Gerwers, photographer, online editor, ProfiFoto magazine, Mönchengladbach
HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY
The Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin launched the major retrospective exhibition, HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY, on 31 October 2021. Originally scheduled to coincide with the photographer’s 100th birthday, it was postponed for a year due to the pandemic. Visitors can now look forward to seeing not only Helmut Newton’s many iconic images, but also a number of suprises.
The entire exhibition space on the first floor of the museum will chronologically trace the life and visual legacy of the Berlin-born photographer. With around 300 works, half of which are being shown for the first time, the foundation’s curator Matthias Harder will present lesser-known aspects of Newton’s oeuvre, including many of his more unconventional fashion photographs which span the decades and reflect the changing spirit of the times. The presentation will be complemented by Polaroids and contact sheets that give insight into the creation process of some of the iconic motifs featured, as well as special publications, archival material, and quotations from the photographer.
It was in the 1960s that Newton found his inimitable style in Paris, as seen in his photographs of the revolutionary fashion by André Courrèges. Working for well-known fashion magazines, he not only took classic studio shots but ventured into the streets, staging models as participants in a protest, protagonists in a paparazzi story, and more. His clients’ sometimes strict requirements and narrow expectations served as an incentive for him to challenge traditional modes of representation. In the 1970s, Newton began to enjoy unlimited creative possibilities while shooting on location – whether by helicopter on the beach in Hawaii or in a Parisian hourly hotel, where he included himself in a lingerie campaign through strategically placed mirrors. Repeatedly testing social and moral boundaries, sometimes he even redefined them. Until the end of his life he continued to both disturb and enchant people with his visions and visualizations of fashion and femininity. No other photographer has likely been published more often than Helmut Newton, and many of his iconic images have become part of our collective visual memory. Now, following intensive research in the foundation’s archives, forgotten and surprising photographs are coming to light...
Vera Mercer: New Works
In a pop-up exhibition on the weekend of 6–7 November 2021, Berlin-born photographer Vera Mercer showed a selection of her New Works – consisting of exquisite inkjet and platinum prints – at Villa Heike in Berlin. She also presented her new book of the same name, and published by DCV in Berlin.
Vera Mercer wowed international audiences a little over ten years ago with her lush, neo-baroque still life color photography. The photographs are populated by drinking vessels and vases, fruits and mushrooms, cutlery, and animal cadavers – be they recently deceased or merely the outer shell. Candlesticks also make an appearance, fitted with fresh or worn-down candles, alongside Mercer’s ever recurring flower blossoms, which occasionally lose their petals along the way. While some of the dead animals featured in the still lifes seem only to be asleep, others look as if they have recently been exhumed – offering new, more radical vanitas studies bridging beauty and transience, the perennial dualism we sense throughout Vera Mercer's work.
Although some of her New Works are now darker and more somber than they were a few years ago, the photographer remains true to her still-life-based photography, which she realizes in multifaceted arrangements at her homes in Omaha and Paris.
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