EXHIBITIONS AT THE LEICA GALLERY FRANKFURT

Jan von Holleben: Sugar Wow

May 5, 2023 - July 29, 2023

“No other drug is so widely used and nobody can live without it. Sugar is simply the most amazing thing for us living beings,” says photographer Jan von Holleben. In his Berlin photo studio he has the sweetest temptation since food has existed. “I wanted to immerse myself completely in this world. I found the classic sweets, which had a clear design language, particularly more

Monaco: Hidden Gems - undiscovered treasures

March 9, 2023 - April 29, 2023

Monaco: a tiny principality perched on a rock in the sparkling Mediterranean; a festival venue, replete with stars and glamour. Some go there to see the yachts, visit the casino, and watch Formula One. For others, it’s home. Monaco has a thousand faces. And photographers have long been drawn to take its portrait. Some of these images have become iconic, just as Leica has become the iconic more

Manfred Baumann: A Photographer's Life

November 25, 2022 - March 4, 2023

The photographer Manfred Baumann is known not only for his national but also international portraits of stars and starlets. He knows how to stage people, to tell a story, to create an expression that is much more than the person portrayed. Manfred Baumann grew up in Vienna and found his way into photography through a few detours. While working as an assistant for a Viennese photographer he more

Michael Friedel - Reports 1950 to 1990

November 2, 2018 - February 2, 2019

Born in 1935, Michael Friedel is one of the busiest German photographers of the 1950s to 1990s. Nevertheless, his work is little known in photo circles. Its color-intensive South Seas and island images are usually connoted with travel and tourism. His great reportages for Quick, Stern or GEO are history.His early photographs in black and white, his well-seen street pictures or surprising more

Walter Vogel: 7 Decades Photography

September 23, 2022 - November 19, 2022

Walter Vogel has been drawing photographs with his camera, preferably his Leica, for 70 years. It's not just the camera technique that he masters down to the smallest detail, but it's the feeling for the composition, the light, the mood, the shadow and his subject that he adds to create a harmonious whole.For him, photography is a craft that creates a connection between the mechanics of the camera more

Leica Oskar Barnack Award meets Leica Gallery Frankfurt Archive

August 8, 2022 - September 17, 2022

Leica Oskar Barnack Award photographers Tom Hegen (finalist 2021), Mustafah Abdulaziz (winner 2019) and Narelle Autio (winner 2002) meet works from the Leica Frankfurt Archive (Kai Pfaffenbach, Ulrich Mack, Patrick Trefz and Régis Bossu). The series of the LOBA finalists: Narelle Autio - The Coastal Dwellers Saturated colours, intense light, happy people, blue seas, clouds: the more

Steve McCurry: The Eyes of Humanity

April 29, 2022 - July 30, 2022

Steve McCurry's photographs have not only written history, but also tell stories of everyday life. They are documents of historical events. The American Magnum photographer shows the impressive beauty of this world in his pictures. He takes the viewer on journeys to remote places that are either too feared to explore or so enchanted which raises questions about the place. Above all, the people in more

Line Up: Ready for the Catwalk

January 21, 2022 - April 19, 2022

Like photography, fashion is a medium of expression. As changeable as a picture, it's more than just an article of clothing, it is versatile and creative. There are a wide variety of styles that can be an expression of an emotional world, a mood and a personality. Just like photography can be. Photography and fashion enter into an essential symbiosis in this exhibition, the diversity of which more

Torsten A. Hoffmann: Composer of Man and Space

October 29, 2021 - January 15, 2022

Hoffmann captures people in their urban and rural living space in a fascinating and creative composition. Whether it is the integration in visual mirror formations or the simple but well-thought-out street scene, the human being is at the center of his observations. In doing so, he often doesn't stop at socially critical locations and integrates a portion of humor in other images. Torsten more

James Bond 007: No Time To Die - Behind The Scenes

September 10, 2021 - October 23, 2021

This exclusive exhibition celebrating the release of No Time To Die features behind-the-scenes photography from the set of the 25th Bond adventure. Curated by 007 producer Michael G. Wilson, the show unveils 25 unique black and white photographs. Michael G. Wilson, actor Daniel Craig and photographers Nicola Dove and Greg Williams capture a series of intimate moments with their Leica cameras. more

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