Doing the Document
Doing the Document
August 31, 2018
Lee Friedlander
New York City, 1963
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Where does documentation end, and fine art begin? In our ‘post-truth’ era – characterised not least by the increasing aestheticization of archival and documentary materials – this is an aspect of contemporary art that must now be renegotiated. The exhibition was made possible by a substantial donation of more than 200 works by German and American photographers, gifted to the museum’s holdings by the Bartenbach family of Cologne. In addition to photographs spanning from the early twentieth century to the present day, the Bartenbach Collection also includes source materials, which have been scientifically explored for the first time in the context of this exhibition.
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Lee Friedlander
New York City, 1963
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
David Hockney John St. Claire Swimming, April 1972
© David Hockney
Candida Höfer Schloss Mirabell Salzburg IV 1996
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018
Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer Boy at a streetfair, Richard-Wagner-Platz, Berlin 1981, 1981
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018