National Gallery of Art - Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945

[bmattock]

I'm amazing. Here you go, for those able to attend. Much of this show will not be seen in the West again in our lifetimes. Worth a day's travel, really:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060800740.html

When Central Europe Was Photography's Frontier
An Overlooked Era of Bold Experimentation Comes Into Focus at The National Gallery

By Andy Grundberg
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, June 10, 2007; Page N02

People who love photography know that Germans, Czechs and Hungarians took some of the greatest pictures of the 1920s and '30s.

While Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans and Edward Weston were perfecting a pure, no-nonsense style in the United States, and Henri Cartier-Bresson was developing his "decisive moment" brand of candid photography in France, Central Europe was abuzz with talents who opened up unexplored territories of photographic expression.

Click on above link for more. Also:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/fotoinfo.shtm

 

[RML]

Bookmarked both for future reading!