Colour for the Republic
Colour for the Republic
February 23, 2014
Martin Schmidt - Traktoristin, about 1965
© Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum
The foundations of the presentation are built on the archives of photo reporters Martin Schmidt (1925) and Kurt Schwarzer (1927-2012). Schmidt and Schwarzer worked as free-lance photographers for a number of different papers. Mass organizations such as the Free German Federation of Trade Unions, and companies were also among their clients.
The promise of colour photography
Colour photography played an important role in conveying socialist ideology. It became a form of expressing modernity as well as giving visual promise to a socialist future. The exhibition offers a glimpse of and reflects critically on the origins and the impact of commissioned photography.
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Martin Schmidt - Traktoristin, about 1965
© Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum
Kurt Schwarzer - Paar mit Moped vor dem Kraftwerk Vockerode, 1963
© Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum