Photographing Photography

Curated by Agnes Matthias (Deutsche Fotothek, Dresden) and Karen Weinert (bautzner69/publish&print, Dresden).

The exhibition explores the question of how photography is made visible in the medium itself. The exhibits cover around 100 years of the pre-digital era in the form of an installation. The selection is based on a thematic review of the Deutsche Fotothek’s [German Photographic Library] collection of around 7 million photographs. On display are the photographic situation and practice, technology and materials, as well as studios and display cases as places of production and distribution. Photographers often sought out these subjects deliberately, reflecting on their own work, while sometimes they became the subject of the image unintentionally.