"Photography Calling! presents the work of some of documentary photography's most accomplished practitioners, including acknowledged masters of the medium William Eggleston, Diane Arbus and Robert Adams; a younger generation of international leaders such as Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Demand; and emerging photographers such as Laura Bielau. Combining works from the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the collection of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, the exhibition and accompanying book show photography in all its power, beauty and ambition. Photography Calling! also has a political motive: to increase the prominence of photography in German museum collections in which it is currently underrepresented. In Thomas Weski's words, Photography Calling! risks 'a precarious balancing act between, on the one hand, surprising the art world and initiating a serious discourse and, on the other, popularizing high-level contemporary artistic photography and making it accessible to a wider audience'.
Contents. Welcome address of the land government -- Welcome address of the lord mayor -- Welcome address of the Niedersächisische sparkassenstiftung -- Foreword / Sprengel Museum Hannover -- Photographers. Diane Arbus -- Stephen Gill -- Bernd and Hilla Becher -- Thomas Ruff -- Robert Adams -- Heidi Specker -- William Eggleston -- Nicholas Nixon -- Tobias Zielony -- Andreas Gursky -- Jitka Hanzlovà -- Lewis Baltz -- Elisabeth Neudörfl -- Hans-Peter Feldmann -- Michael Schmidt -- Thomas Demand -- Jochen Lempert -- Wolfgang Tillmans -- Max Baumann -- Jeff Wall -- John Gossage -- Laura Bielau -- Thomas Struth -- Lee Friedlander -- Rita Ostroskaja -- Helga Paris -- Rineke Dijkstra -- Paul Graham -- Martin Parr -- Boris Mikhailov -- Sammlung unserer wünsche / Thomas Weski -- Just the collection all of us would wish for / Thomas Weski -- Augespitzte mittlere befunde, 30 fotografische positionen / Inka Schube -- Uncommon pictures of the commonplace, 30 photographic positions / Inka Schube -- Project spaces. Photography calling /Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel -- The "La Brea" photobookstudy / Markus Schaden -- the sound of downloading makes me want to upload / Wilhelm Schürmann.
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