Photography Exhibition Berlin

In addition to the well-known and widely visited photography exhibitions at C / O Berlin or the Museum for Photography of the Helmut Newton Foundation, there will be another highlight for fans of high-quality photography, opening October 2nd, 2020.

In the course of the European Month of Photography the URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART opens the new exhibition: “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” – the world’s first retrospective of Martha Cooper’s photographic work. Using photographs and personal objects, the exhibition traces Cooper’s life, from her first camera in 1946 to her current reputation as a world-famous photographer.

Martha Cooper’s photographs, in their “snapshot easthetic” and through their choice of unpretentious motifs and pictorial objects, align themselves with other documentarists such as Robert Frank or Manuel Rivera-Ortiz’. Her poetic-documentary images capture the essence of the matter without intervening or pretending.

In addition to her world-famous documentation of the hidden subculture of young graffiti artists and their illegal works of art, the extensive travels of Martha Cooper will be another focus of the exhibition. The resulting photographs from Senegal, Suriname or the Philippines were partly commissioned by major geography and travel magazines such as GEO Magazine. However, the term “commissioned work” would not do justice to the majority of the images taken during these trips. Rather, Martha Cooper’s urge to research, record, and preserve is once again evident here. The group of works resulting from these journeys spans a period from the 1980s to the present. The images provide a respectful insight into the everyday life of the people portrayed, but also refer to personal experiences and memories that have shaped the photographer’s life.

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