The new exhibition at Musée d’Art Moderne is focusing on one of the most important movements in photography the last 20 years: The Düsseldorf school. Maybe most recognized for the teacher couple Berndt and Hilla Becher, who set out to document industrial architechture all around the world for decades (and have a rough 20000 of these documents in the archive), this couple also found the time to tutor some of the photographic superstars that arose in the end of the 80′s and still have a great part in today’s art photography; Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, and more. Rather than staging the photograph, the essence in deadpan photography lies in the selection and the somewhat neutral way of presenting a motive, more leaning towards an intellectual analysis than an emotional one. The new exhibition in Paris is open until the beginning of January and covers a whole range of work related to the Düsseldorf school, wether influenced or actually taught at the Kunstakademie itself. It is simply a must-see.
[...] Musée d’Art Moderne, Objectivités: En utställning om Düsseldorfskolan jag skrev mer om här. I måndags gick jag på en intervju med Hilla Becher och Thomas Struth i samband med [...]