Olaf Martens Blockschokolade GDR 1979 - 1989 "Olaf Martens has been sighting his archive for some time now. True treasures have come to light. Nobody has photographed everyday-life in the DDR quite as unvarnished as him. Martens mastered Street Photography of the East at a time when he couldn't have even known the term existed Olaf Martens does what one is not supposed to." Hans Eberhard Hess Photo International Gallery f5.6, Munich, is very proud to present for the first…

Die Galerie f5,6 zeigt zum vierjährigen Bestehen eine umfangreiche Gruppenausstellung mit 12 internationalen Positionen, von Altmeistern der Fotografie bis hinzu jüngeren zeitgenössischen Positionen. Der Bogen spannt sich von klassischer Portrait- und Landschaftsfotografie, Modefotografie, über Dokumentar- und Straßenfotografie hin zu „New Topographics“, sowie experimenteller Abstraktion. Neben Altmeistern wie Helen Levitt (geb. 1913, USA) oder Raghubir Singh (1942-1999, Indien/USA) wer…

Galerie f5,6 proudly presents new and unpublished work by the East German artist Olaf Martens (born 1963 in Halle, Germany). His work will also be shown at Paris Photo 2006. Martens is interested in staging his pictures like a theatre play. In his often humorously constructed images, Martens combines a take on fashion, documentary, conceptual, social, even animal photography and art historical and socio-political references. His work cannot be categorised but is a combination of what can be ter…