Eyes on Paris: Paris in Photobooks From 1890 to the Present, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, September 16, 2011 – January 8, 2012
This autumn, Hamburg will host an exhibition dedicated to the most-photographed city in the world - Paris, which also happens to be the birthplace of this medium. The real author of the exhibit's title is the famous American writer, Henry Miller, who, with his wife, June, spent several thrilling months in Paris in the 1920s.
It was in Paris, on August 19th, 1839, that Louis Daguerre created the first photographic image on a silver-plated sheet of copper coated in iodine, known today as the daguerreotype. This was an earth-shattering event that inspired and carried away the local society of artists, scientists and craftsmen. It is only logical that Paris, where the world's most creative minds gathered up until the Second World War, was an ideal place for the development and growth of the photographic genre. Eyes on Paris reveals the Paris that the artists beheld - the works are partly subjective and partly documentary stories, true chronicles of the day. At the same time, they are emotionally revealing messages that encompass the period from 1893 to the present, offering up a constellation of the most famous photographers of all time.
The exhibition, which takes up a full 1000 square meters, includes all of the most important 20th-century books that tell the story of Paris with the aid of photographs.
www.deichtorhallen.de
Deichtorstraße 1−2
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