Sichtweisen / Perspectives
Publication 2020

Edited by Linda Conze and Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Published by Distanz Verlag (Berlin) 2020
192 pages with 200 illustrations
Foreword by Felix Krämer
Texts by Linda Conze, Janos Frecot, Vera Knippschild and Thomas Weski. (German / English)
The catalogue accompanies the eponymous exhibition "Perspectives. The New Photography Collection".
What would it look like if we could retell the history of photography? By purchasing the Kicken Collection, the Kunstpalast has devoted itself to a reappraisal of the history of photography from 1840 to today. In this acquisition of over 3,000 photographs, the museum combines icons of the avant-garde – from Man Ray to Bernd and Hilla Becher – with motifs from everyday photography through a multi-layered approach: individual images stand alongside series, early photographic techniques are shown alongside American color photography. In thematic chapters, viewers are invited to learn which photographic perspectives were driven by “curiosity,” which were dedicated to the task of “testimony,” and how these concerns characterized photography then and now.
Perspectives. The New Photography Collection with texts by Linda Conze, Thomas Weski and Janos Frecot, as well as short comments by seventeen photography-enthusiastic authors, documents fundamental questions about the collection and presentation of photography within a museum context.
Artists
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Leopold Ahrendts1825–1870
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Eugène Atget1857–1927
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Irene Bayer1898–1991
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Bernd & Hilla Becher1931–2007; 1934–2015
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Sibylle Bergemann1941–2010
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Aenne Biermann1898–1933
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Karl Blossfeldt1865–1932
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Anna & Bernhard Blume1936–2020; 1937–2011
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Renata Bracksieck1900–1992
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Monika von Boch1915-1993
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Walker Evans1903–1975
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Hans Finsler1891–1972
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Arno Fischer1927–2011
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André Gelpke*1947
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Andreas Gursky*2013
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Franz Hanfstaengl1804–1877
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Marta Hoepffner1912–2000
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Candida Höfer*1944
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Lotte Jacobi1896–1990
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Grit Kallin-Fischer1897–1973
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Gertrude Käsebier1852–1934
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Peter Keetman1916–2005
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Heinrich Kühn1866–1944
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Helmar Lerski1871–1956
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Joel Meyerowitz*1938
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Ryuji Miyamoto*1947
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László Moholy-Nagy1895–1946
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Lucia Moholy1894–1989
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Eadweard Muybridge1830–1904
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Helmut Newton1920–2004
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Nicholas Nixon*1947
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Helga Paris1938–2024
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Man Ray1890–1976
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Albert Renger-Patzsch1897–1966
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Heinrich Riebesehl1938–2010
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Ringl & Pit
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Alexander Rodchenko1891–1956
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Franz Roh1890–1965
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Tata Ronkholz1940−1997
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August Sander1876–1964
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Karl Hugo Schmölz1917–1986
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Stephen Shore*1947
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Neal Slavin*1941
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Lotte Beese1903–1988
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Otto Steinert1915–1978
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Sasha Stone1895–1940
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William Henry Fox Talbot1800–1877
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Georg Trump1896–1985
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UMBO1902–1980
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Vkhutemas Workshops1920–1927
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Edward Weston1886–1958
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Ludwig Windstosser1921–1983
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Willy Zielke1902–1989
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Piet Zwart1885–1957