Tom Waits, Santa Rosa, 2004. © Anton Corbijn

Cobra Museum | Anton Corbijn: MOØDe, December 22, 2023 – May 12, 2024

“The world of fashion through the lens of Anton Corbijn. From 22 December 2023 to 12 May 2024, over 200 fashion-related photographs by this leading photographer and filmmaker will be on display at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen. The MOØDe exhibition also features portraits Corbijn made of people like Kate Moss, Tom Waits, Alexander McQueen and Naomi Campbell.

“In the exhibition MOØDe, Anton Corbijn (Strijen, 1955) presents photographs from his extensive oeuvre (between 1979 – 2023) in which he explores the crossover between portrait photography and the fashion world. In doing so, Corbijn embraces the terms ‘mood’ and ‘mode’ (‘fashion’) in the broadest sense. Corbijn is an admirer of fashion photographers such as Irving Penn, Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi and Helmut Newton. Whereas these photographers usually do portraits in addition to fashion photography, with Corbijn it is the other way around: he is a portrait photographer who occasionally visits the fashion world.

“Photography plays a major role in the global fashion culture and industry. It largely determines how we look at a fashion design and is used by designers to amplify their vision and visual identity. The trendy and ever-changing fashion world collaborates with photographers and visual artists who not only capture reality but also actually create it. For photography, in turn, the fashion world’s distinct visual universe is a very rewarding subject. With MOØDe, Anton Corbijn shows that fashion is all around us.”

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*On the Street*, New York, 1948. © Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021.

f3 - freiraum für fotografie | Ruth Orkin: WOMEN, December 8, 2023 – February 18, 2024

“Following the successful show Ruth Orkin – A Photo Spirit in 2021, f3 – freiraum für fotografie now presents newly discovered and previously unpublished images by American photographer Ruth Orkin.

“Tracing the photographer's footsteps, Nadine Barth, curator and publicist @barthouseprojects, and Katharina Mouratidi, Artistic Director f3 – freiraum für fotografie, came across a largely unpublished, multi-layered and unique body of work that reveals a little-known side of Ruth Orkin. That of a sensitive, interested, witty, and funny chronicler of American women of the 1940s and 1950s.

“With biting humor, the photographer devised reportages such as »Who Works Harder«, which compares the life of a housewife and mother with that of a career woman, documented women in beauty salons, at cocktail parties, at dog shows and on the film set in Hollywood. In the footage we encounter Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Joan Taylor, and Doris Day, but also waitresses, stewardesses, soldiers, and best friends.

“What Ruth Orkin's subtle but radically subversive shots capture are images of women on the move who are beginning to shed the conventions imposed on them and go their own way: self-confident, stylish, smart and far ahead of their time.”

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Berenice Abbott, *Metropolitan Life Building, New York*, ca. 1935. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Cam and Wanda Garner, 2020.340. © Berenice Abbott/Getty Images, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

The San Diego Museum of Art | Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, December 16, 2023 – June 16, 2024

“See selections from Berenice Abbott’s monumental photography project Changing New York that capture the rapid transformation of New York City in the 1930s. When American-born Abbott (1898–1991) returned to the United States in 1929 after an eight-year sojourn in Europe, she observed her home with a fresh appreciation and a conviction to capture what she called “the spirit of the metropolis.” As she wrote of Manhattan, “The sweep of one’s vision can take in the dramatic contrasts of the old and new and the bold foreshadowing of the future.”

“Abbott’s Changing New York series includes over three hundred black-and-white photographs featuring a range of subjects—modern skyscrapers, as well as harbors, highways, city squares, neighborhoods, storefronts, and hand-painted signs—that capture the essence of a specific time and place. The artist’s steadfast vision for this unprecedented undertaking was funded by the Federal Art Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, with selections later published in a book to coincide with the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. Abbott’s photographs changed the course of photography in the twentieth century and are a reminder of the excitement and joy ignited when seeing the world anew.”

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