THE CNA IN LUXEMBOURG OPENS A MAJOR SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHYEDWARD STEICHEN’S THE BITTER YEARS MEETS CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHYThe Centre national de l’audiovisuel in Luxembourg (CNA) is opening a major new space dedicated to photography. On 29 September 2012 the centre will launch Waassertuerm and Pomhouse, featuring two exhibition galleries created in the unusual setting of an industrial water tower (Waassertuerm) and its adjacent pumping station (Pomhouse) as part of the CNA extension project … more

"The Bitter Years" is the last exhibition Edward Steichen organized as director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. It was created in 1962 and pays tribute to documentary photography, featuring over 200 images from one of the greatest collective projects in the history of pho¬tography: the documentation of rural America during the Great Depression, which was carried out between 1935 and 1943 by the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The pr… more