Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
8 February to 6 April 2008
The Photographers' Gallery London
8 February to 6 April 2008
The Photographers' Gallery London
The Photographers' Gallery has a fantastic location and an unusual floor plan. The gallery 'at 5 Great Newport Street, but also to no.8. The two buildings are not communicating with their neighbors and they are hosting the same shows, half here and half there. These days there are the works of the four finalists Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is awarded annually to the professional who, during the previous year, has made a major contribution to photography. This year the finalists are John Davies (UK), Jacob Holdt (Denmark), Esko Männikkö (Finland) and Fazal Sheikh (USA).
If I had any ranking staff, crowned John Davies and Jacob Holdt, a dead heat.
Davis exhibits large format photographs, many in black and white, mostly taken between 1979 and 2005. The subjects on which returns are the views of British towns and open spaces, some other desert towns. Places seemingly forgotten, but which lead topography in their signs of recent history, industrial and post-industrial in framed photos of short texts on the side.
Jacob Holdt also tells a story, that large minorities of color in America, and does so through a choice among the thousand pictures ... he has done in five years, now projected onto a wall, all taken by hitchhiker on a trip in the early seventies. The shots of Holdt remain impressed by their intimacy '. It 'been able to reconstruct the heat and passion between a pair of African American boys in a house bare, blind reliance on the protection of the guns of a white middle-class family and the absolute degradation of the bands lowest in the society. Holdt and 'managed to capture the essence of American society of the seventies, with its passions and its contradictions, understanding photography as a means to raise awareness of the extreme social and racial injustice that he had met on his journey.
A complaint Fazal Sheik touches instead a well-defined part of the contemporary Indian population: women. They are the faces of these girls, mature, which set the goal of putting them or shun him. They have all experienced dramatic episodes of violence unprecedented in a country where their lives count for nothing and where the ultrasound is used only to find in advance the sex of the unborn child and to provide early abortion in case it appears female. The stories told in the texts next to the pictures are still so painful that eventually absorb all the attention, putting the background in sharp pictures themselves.
Completely different is the attitude Photographic Esko Männikkö that hunting has become a photographer in the eighties. In his work carries with it the memory of open spaces and quiet isolation in which people and animals living in parts of Lapland and Finland. "I'ma photographer of fish, dogs and old men," he once said.
Not to miss: Agecroft Power Station, Salford (Davis 1983), a coal plant in 1925, then closed. Now the same site is occupied by HM Prison Forest Bank for prisoners of 18-20 years, who play football in the picture as their forms, tiny in front of the immensity of the plant, are lost in a lunar landscape.
If I had any ranking staff, crowned John Davies and Jacob Holdt, a dead heat.
Davis exhibits large format photographs, many in black and white, mostly taken between 1979 and 2005. The subjects on which returns are the views of British towns and open spaces, some other desert towns. Places seemingly forgotten, but which lead topography in their signs of recent history, industrial and post-industrial in framed photos of short texts on the side.
Jacob Holdt also tells a story, that large minorities of color in America, and does so through a choice among the thousand pictures ... he has done in five years, now projected onto a wall, all taken by hitchhiker on a trip in the early seventies. The shots of Holdt remain impressed by their intimacy '. It 'been able to reconstruct the heat and passion between a pair of African American boys in a house bare, blind reliance on the protection of the guns of a white middle-class family and the absolute degradation of the bands lowest in the society. Holdt and 'managed to capture the essence of American society of the seventies, with its passions and its contradictions, understanding photography as a means to raise awareness of the extreme social and racial injustice that he had met on his journey.
A complaint Fazal Sheik touches instead a well-defined part of the contemporary Indian population: women. They are the faces of these girls, mature, which set the goal of putting them or shun him. They have all experienced dramatic episodes of violence unprecedented in a country where their lives count for nothing and where the ultrasound is used only to find in advance the sex of the unborn child and to provide early abortion in case it appears female. The stories told in the texts next to the pictures are still so painful that eventually absorb all the attention, putting the background in sharp pictures themselves.
Completely different is the attitude Photographic Esko Männikkö that hunting has become a photographer in the eighties. In his work carries with it the memory of open spaces and quiet isolation in which people and animals living in parts of Lapland and Finland. "I'ma photographer of fish, dogs and old men," he once said.
Not to miss: Agecroft Power Station, Salford (Davis 1983), a coal plant in 1925, then closed. Now the same site is occupied by HM Prison Forest Bank for prisoners of 18-20 years, who play football in the picture as their forms, tiny in front of the immensity of the plant, are lost in a lunar landscape.
The Photographers' Gallery
5 & 8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
Tube: Leicester Square
Orari di apertura
Lunedì – Sabato dalle 11:00 alle18:00
Giovedì dalle 11:00 alle 20:00
Domenica dalle 12:00 alle 18:00
Ingresso
Ingresso gratuito
5 & 8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
Tube: Leicester Square
Orari di apertura
Lunedì – Sabato dalle 11:00 alle18:00
Giovedì dalle 11:00 alle 20:00
Domenica dalle 12:00 alle 18:00
Ingresso
Ingresso gratuito
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