Homage to Spring!

The showcase offers a chance to enjoy and acquire visualisations of spring by outstanding photographers – among them Mario Giacomelli, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Nobuyoshi Araki and Luisa Hübner, to name but a few. At the heart of the exhibition are selected works by the late, great Elliot Erwitt (1928–2023), captured during countless explorations of Paris from the 1940s onwards: spanning more than seven decades, the Magnum legend’s black and white impressions of the City of Love must be among the most sensuous interpretations to ever have emerged from reportage photography.

Right up until the 2010s, Erwitt continuously returned to the city of his birth, exploring its boulevards, street cafés, gardens and cabarets with the gaze of an idle wanderer, and an unerring sense for the extraordinary within the everyday. Erwitt’s images almost seem like a knowing wink at the audience – a trait that distinguishes his assignments and independent work alike. It sets the tone of his entire oeuvre, and infuses the depicted scenes with an emotional complexity that far transcends the moments he so accurately observed.

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