| | | | | | | | | Pat Blake for Vogue NY, 1954 © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld | | | | | | | 15 February - 14 April 2019 | | | | | | | 15 February - 28 April 2019 | | | | PUBLIC OPENING: Thursday 14 February 2019 from 17.30 hours | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam
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© The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld | | | | | | | 15 February - 14 April 2019 | | | From 15 February, Foam will be showing the colour photography of the influential German photographer Erwin Blumenfeld.
Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was born in Germany. He mastered photography in the Netherlands, where he shot portraits. After he went to Paris he built a career in fashion photography for a few years and he only worked in black and white. He liked to experiment with various techniques such as double exposure, distortion and solarisation. But from the moment that colour photography was introduced to the world, he transformed his original compositions in black and white into colour. | | | | | | | | | Variant of the photograph published in Vogue US, August 1st, 1950, p.63
© The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld | | | | | | | His special repertoire of shapes and colours that he developed after he left for the United States in 1941 made him one of the most original fashion photographers in New York. The female body and death were his main sources of inspiration. Despite the fashionable frivolity, he distinguished himself by the surreal nature of his subjects; the goal of his search was not realism, but the mystery of reality. He worked freelance for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Life and Vogue. The exhibition of his work in Foam focuses on colour photography that he developed in his period in New York (1941-1960) and gave him worldwide recognition. | | | | | | | | | Minaudière Evans. Earrings Ledo. Bracelet Henri Bendel (model: Victoria von Hagen)
Variant of the photograph published in the article "The Same Face" in Vogue US, October 15th, 1952, p.56
© The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld | | | | | | The exhibition will be opened by granddaughter Nadia Blumenfeld-Charbit on 14 February 2019. You are welcome from 5.30pm onwards.
The exhibition Erwin Blumenfeld in Color - His New York Years was made in collaboration with the Erwin Blumenfeld Estate, Nadia Blumenfeld-Charbit François Cheval and Audrey Hoareau | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From the Series Train Church. Photograph by Santu Mofokeng (b.1956) © Santu Mofokeng Foundation. Image courtesy of Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg and Steidl GmbH. | | | | | | | 15 February - 28 April 2019 | | | | This year marks the 25th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, followed by the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in 1994. This historic event marked the end of apartheid: a regime of institutionalised racial segregation that was in effect from 1948 to 1991. South African photographer Santu Mofokeng (b. 1956) documented the everyday lives of rural sharecroppers and of labourers in the townships. At a time when propaganda dominated the media, his images offer a more nuanced understanding of daily life under apartheid and after. Foam presents a major monographic exhibition with previously unseen works from the photographer’s personal archives. The exhibition brings together 11 visual stories that each narrate an hour, a week, or sometimes years of everyday life in a rapidly changing political climate. | | | | | | | | | | From the Series Train Church. Photograph by Santu Mofokeng (b.1956) © Santu Mofokeng Foundation. Image courtesy of Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg and Steidl GmbH. | | | | | | | Mofokeng grew up in Soweto, a township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. As a black photographer under apartheid, he would be one of the few to document various South African communities up close and from within. The exhibition brings together a number of important photographic essays, including Mofokeng’s first and most celebrated visual story Train Church (1986): a report on the spontaneous religious rituals that occurred in the commuter train between Soweto and Johannesburg. Other photos portray street life and the shebeens (illicit drinking establishments) in the townships of Soweto and Dukathole. The exhibition also presents early journalistic images of unionization and political rallies that formed the prelude to the eventual abolishment of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as president in 1994. Together, hundreds of photographs paint a dynamic portrait of a complex society in a state of transition. | | | | | | | | | | From the Series Politics. Photograph by Santu Mofokeng (b.1956) © Santu Mofokeng Foundation. Image courtesy of Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg and Steidl GmbH. | | | | | | The exhibition Santu Mofokeng – Stories was created in collaboration with Joshua Chuang. Courtesy of Santu Mofokeng and Lunetta Bartz, MAKER. Foam thanks Steidl Verlag for their advice and involvement.
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