It has taken a long time until photography became a recognized genre in the art world and beyond. Transforming from craft to art, photography is now a permanent part of many world class museums. For this summer, Hamburg offers some excellent exhibitions that are photography based or related. After Hamburg's Deichtorhallen already showed Saul Leiter earlier this year, I'm very happy to see that thi...
Hamburg’s impressive photography summer
June 8th, 2012 | by Tobias Weisserth | published in Feature, Gallery, Hamburg, Photography, Stories
It has taken a long time until photography became a recognized genre in the art world and beyond. Transforming from craft to art, photography is now a permanent part of many world class museums. For this summer, Hamburg offers some excellent exhibitions that are photography based or related. After Hamburg's Deichtorhallen already showed Saul Leiter earlier this year, I'm very happy to see that thi...
Finding Vivian Maier
May 16th, 2011 | by Tobias Weisserth | published in Blog, Photography
Although I consider myself decently talented and also interested in photography, I wouldn't be able to recite the ten most influential masters of the art by heart, at least when it comes to street photography. Since the discovery of Vivian Maier, I can safely put another name on that list. She is yet to achieve the status of a renowned master, but given that her work is up to 60 years old and has ...