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220811: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker Photography Movement, 1926-1939

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker Photography Movement, 1926-1939 06.04.11 - 22.08.11 No Mercy “A hard, merciless light” characterized the worker photography of the Twenties. It was exactly this lack of social romanticism, to position ones “sympathy” philanthropically and thereby hierarchically above the object, with which the new concepts of proletariat photography were approached. The depiction of the sober, unadorned world of workers was – by definition - meant to be documentary, avoiding any form of emotional staging. On the one hand, the dualism of the topic consists of presenting a choreographed new positive image of workers, and on the other hand, a social critical documentation of the status to be overcome; all this with the “proletarian eye” as defined by Edwin Hoernie, the inventor of the slogan “light without mercy”, as an antagonism to the viewpoint of bourgeois humanism. Groups in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, France, The Netherlands, England, the USA and Mexico were quickly founded. In the Soviet Union the end came with the expiration of the Five-Year-Plan and in Germany with Hitler seizing power; the worker’s magazine AIZ relocated to Prague with John Heartfield. The Civil War in Spain offered a last forum for reporter photography, among others for the Viennese photographer Margaret Michaelis-Sachs. The equally extensive as profoundly researched exhibition in Madrid deals with the topic in all facets of film and photo, arranged by countries, whereby the main focus is on Germany, eg. with AIZ and a report published in 1931 covering 24 hours in the life of the Moscow-based worker family Filippov and numerous vintage prints. Austria is represented by a small selection of works by Edith Tudor Harts, the sister of photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, compiled by Johannes Faber. In the end, in light of the hardly manageable mass of works, only a few individual impressions remain - and the fascinating image of the utopia of combining artistic and political avant-garde. By Iris Meder Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía 28012 Madrid, Santa Isabel 52 Tel: (+34) 91 774 10 00 Fax: (+34) 91 774 10 56 http://www.museoreinasofia.es/ Opening hours: Mon - Sat 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. -2.30 p.m.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
28012 Madrid, Santa Isabel 52
Tel: (+34) 91 774 10 00, Fax: (+34) 91 774 10 56
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/
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