Contacts: Conceptual Photography (XXlX week with AFG film club)

Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 20:00
John Baldessari – 13 mins
Bernd & Hilla Becher – 14 mins
Christian Boltanski – 12 mins
Alain Fleischer – 13 mins
John Hilliard – 14 mins
CONTACTS is a collection of films about contemporary photography. Each film traces the development of an individual photographer. With the help of the program director, the photographer puts together a retrospective, selecting images from his or her contact sheets, proof prints and end-prints to show how his or her work has changed in character and meaning over the years.
Photographers use contact sheets and proofs of various kinds as an aid to memory or a log-book. Exploring these visual jottings provides us with an invaluable insight into their working methods.
Over the years, the initial concept of the collection has evolved. CONTACTS now includes major contemporary artists like Sophie Calle, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin and Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose work makes use of photographic techniques, alongside famous photo-journalists like William Klein, Helmut Newton, Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
CONTACTS has become an international reference for all those who are interested in contemporary photography.
* Programs are free of charge, but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.
* Films are screened in original language with English subtitles.
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