Jürgen Schadeberg - Seen and Unseen

April 28, 2017 - July 29, 2017

He always has his Leica camera along. Born in Berlin in 1931, Jürgen Schadeberg left Germany as the first white photographer and went to South Africa in 1950 to document apartheid. He was the only white man who work as a cheffotographer and image editor for the cult magazine Drum. At first, he lights up musicians, bikini beauties and starlets. Later the magazine also turns into a political language pipe, which describes the pulsating everyday life of the people in the townships and the homelands. This is also the time when he makes his first recordings of the great statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winning Nelson Mandela.

In the mid-1960s, he left South Africa for about 25 years to hold on to the bustle of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and above all in Great Britain. His photographs of the Berlin Wall as well as the life stories of the people within a torn Germany are equally documentary. The impressive recordings were shown at the TimeLife Magazine and the Stern. In his pictures, Jürgen Schadeberg knows how to set undiscovered moments and contrasts that are expressed by political grievances, melancholy and humor. His black-and-white photographs demonstrate the convincing use of light and shadow, his compositional ability and the keen eye for the moment that he understands his mastery of craftsmanship.

The exhibition shows both, a large selection of his famous photographs, as well as a collection of unknown treasures that nobody has seen for years and now was found for the first time in his archive.

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