Subjective Photography

 

VM Art Gallery & Goethe - Institut Pakistan
present a collaborative photography exhibition

"Subjective Photography"
 

Curator of this exhibition organized by the Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) was J.A. Schmoll, known as Eisenwerth. Showing 165 original photos, it provides a survey of the German contribution to 'subjective photography', an international movement from 1948 to 1963. The lines of tradition of this movement date back to the Bauhaus photography of the 1920s. Many photographers still identify with this tradition today.

It is not the objective portrayal of reality which 'subjective photography' strives for, but its pictorial interpretation, the subjective evaluation of reality through personal imagery. The result is form-conscious structural photography in black and white, with a decidedly graphic value.

The exhibition shows how stylistic criteria can be applied to 'subjective photography' to subjects of photo journalism and advertising photography with a view to the 'image-worth' of the motif, and its aesthetic formation as a black and white composition.

Opening
Part 1, Thursday 1st December 2011 | 5pm at V. M. Art Gallery
Part 2, Friday 2nd December 2011 at Goethe-Institut
(The show will remain on display till the 15th December 2011)