Museum exhibitions of gallery artists: August Sander, Daido Moriyama, Asako Narahashi
June 12, 2008
We just returned from the Art Basel 39 and three of the artists we exhibited at the fair are currently on show in US and Japanese museums:
August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
The Getty Center, Los Angeles
May 6 – September 14, 2008
The exhibition shows a selection of 130 portraits from the the Getty’s remarkable collection of 1,200-plus works by August Sander.
Getty publication on August Sander (2000):
People of the Twentieth Century, the collective portrait of German society made by German photographer August Sander, has fascinated viewers from its earliest presentation in a 1927 exhibition and the controversial publication of a selection of 60 images in the book Face of the Time published two years later. Despite Sander’s dedication over five decades to the idea and compilation of this portrait atlas of the German people, the project remained unfinished. Nonetheless, his photographs remain compelling, in part because he chose to categorize his subjects by profession or social class. The images are thus representations of types, as he intended them to be, rather than portraits of individuals.
[Quote: Getty Center]
The Los Angeles Times had a positive review of the August Sander exhibition.
Daido Moriyama “I. Retrospective 1965-2005″ & “II. Hawaii”
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
May 13 - June 29
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