War and Art
War and Art
April 15, 2015
© Don McCullin, Vietnam 1968, courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London
"Conflict, Time, Photography" takes an equal look at the events of both World Wars as well as more recent conflicts, by means of photographic reportages and artistic works; at the same time, it does not attempt to be a photo or media history of war. The particularity of the exhibition is that it does not centre on chronological documentation but on single war-time events.
The order of the pieces in the exhibition is rather surprising, as it is based solely on the temporal distance to the event the photographers and artists make reference to. The focus lies on the photographic-artistic coverage of war and violence, moments, days, weeks or decades after the event. The artists involved include, among others, Nobuyoshi Araki, René Burri, Emeric Lhuisset, August Sander and Stephen Shore.
Further information on the exhibition is available at: Museum Folkwang
© Don McCullin, Vietnam 1968, courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London
© Chloe Dewe Mathews, from the "Shot at Dawn" series, Belgium 2013
© Simon Norfolk, Afghanistan 2003
© Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Kazakhstan 2012