"Unboxing Photographs. Working in the Photo Archive" opens the boxes of four photo archives to showcase the material diversity of photographs as three-dimensional objects: from glass plate negatives, to 35 mm film, to prints on albumen or silver gelatin paper. These photo-objects are taken in the hand, tilted and turned over, labeled, cut down, framed, glued into albums, printed, and dispatched or posted online. Contact and inventory sheets, cardboard mounts, card catalogs, and today… more

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Sammlung Fotografie - Museum für Fotografie

Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form from Light and Shadow

With his collages and experiments, his nude studies and advertising photographs, Heinz Hajek-Halke belongs to the big names among the pioneers of photography in the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany. His 'combi-photographs' innovatively combined photographs with text and graphic elements. A trained graphic designer, Hajek-Halke had his experimental photographs published in the leading glo… more