Exhibition

ArteF Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “A Selection of Vintage and Contemporary Photographs”, conceived as a delightful journey in the world of photography: modern masters and contemporary leading authors from Europe, United States and Latin America; portraits and landscapes are the focal points of the exhibition.

The show will feature about forty works by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Max Baur, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Mario Cravo Neto, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Frantisek Drtikol, Mario Giacomelli, Philippe Halsman, David LaChapelle, Tina Modotti, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Xanti Schawinsky, Toni von Haken Paul Wolff, and others.

Great masters like Imogen Cunningham (portraits of Martha Graham, Marian Simpson) and Tina Modotti (vernacular photographs of daily life in the Twenty’s in Mexico); the perfect visual organization of the images by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mario Giacomelli will be in dialectic with the contemporary Mario Cravo Neto and David LaChapelle.

The vanguard of the Thirties are represented by Albert Renger-Patzsch and Toni von Haken; the recently re-discovery of Max Baur’s pictures as well as shots by Dr. Paul Wolff, who pioneered Leica camera, are classic in the history of photography.

In the Forty’s another revolutionary artist, the Basel born Xanti Schawinsky, exploited his knowledge of typography processes for photographic image creating pictures of intense visual impact.

The precious photogravures of Edward S. Curtis’s monumental, and unique, volumes on American Indian nation are telling about a mythical world that disappeared. By Curtis is also exhibited the rare ‘Aphrodite’, the most well-known bluetone (blue-toned silver gelatine print) nude of the only three he made in his life.

Actually, a small section of the exhibition will be an homage to the beauty of the body: besides the ‘Aphrodite’, the intriguing images by the Czech Jan Saudek who paints by hands the surface of the prints adding dazzling colours.

The exhibition “A Selection of Vintage and Contemporary Photographs” is a concise survey on modern and contemporary photography through ones of the most interesting authors who gave a swing to this art.