BERLIN PHOTO WEEK 2022: “This Misfits” at the project room of the Helmut Newton Foundation + “Jetzt” at the Reinbeckhallen // Duration BPW: 2 – 9 September 2022 throughout Berlin

 

As part of the BERLIN PHOTO WEEK the German capital is celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the legendary Magnum Photo agency with a wide range of special exhibitions.

One particular highlight is the Helmut Newton Foundation with its exhibition entitled Magnum Photos: The Misfits (3 September – 20 November 2022). In 1960 the famous director John Huston recreated Arthur Miller’s famous work as a star-studded movie. Almost everybody who was at Magnum at the time took photographs on the set, creating world-famous images that will feature as part of the agency’s anniversary celebrations in Berlin.

Images on the set: the insightful pictures taken during the production of The Misfits offer a glimpse behind the scenes in the truest sense. One can see Marilyn Monroe concentrating on her lines in a photo taken by Inge Morath, or Montgomery Clift in the back of a car, taken by Dennis Stock. Another example is the famous group photo of the actors on the set, flanked by the director and author and taken by Elliott Erwitt. The exhibition also features photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Cornell Capa, Ernst Haas and Erich Hartmann. In short, the exhibition is a who’s who of past and present photographer legends. With its presentation of Magnum Photos: The Misfits, the Helmut Newton Foundation is celebrating the photo agency’s seventy-fifth anniversary. At the BERLIN PHOTO WEEK numerous other events featuring members of the legendary cooperative will be taking place in Berlin. (Matthias Harder)

The exhibition Jetzt: Magnum Photos at the Reinbeckhallen (3 September to 20 November 2022) is a further highlight. This is a curated survey of iconic images by Magnum that also spans contemporary works by Magnum’s photographers. It shows how their new work methods can reach an audience that is not only interested in Magnum Photos, but in contemporary subjects and their depiction by photography as well.

The exhibition is the result of a reorientation by the photo agency and examines the situation today of an institution that was founded shortly after the Second World War. It shows how both the agency and photography have changed in recent years, and the resultant varying expression of perspectives and experiences across countries and continents. Jetzt: Magnum Photos is an exhibition of the latest ongoing projects of 20 photographers – Khalik Allah, Olivia Arthur, Jonas Bendiksen, Myriam Boulos, Sabiha Çimen, Carolyn Drake, Gregory Halpern, Sohrab Hura, Alex Majoli, Cristina de Middel, Rafal Milach, Emin Özmen, Mark Power, Hannah Price, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky and Newsha Tavakolian. Each standpoint challenges the viewer to reflect not only on how photographic genres such as photo journalism are changing, but also on the role that photography plays today, in combination with fictional or non-fictional text, film, sound, architecture and textiles for example. The exhibition curated by Dr. Candice M. Hamelin is Stiftung Reinbeckhallen’s contribution to the fourth edition of the BERLIN PHOTO WEEK (2 to 4 September). The group of exhibitions will feature a supporting programme of lectures, film screenings and workshops.

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