“Through the Lens of Candida Höfer,” interview profile courtesy AsiaAlter

In Lost Places: Sites of photography at Hamberger Kunsthalle in Germany (through September 23, 2012), 20 innovative contemporary photographers respond to the question: ”What happens to real places if a space loses its usual significance and can be experienced on a virtual plane?”

These artists, many who came out of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s renowned Dusseldorf School of Photography, which championed the de-emphasis of the perspective of the photographer and focus on the object’s command over the frame, present the documentation of landscape at a time when traditional notions of “space” and “place,” for better or worse, are rapidly changing.

Artist included in the exhibition are: Thomas Demand (b. 1964), Omer Fast (b. 1972), Beate Gütschow (b. 1970), Andreas Gursky (b. 1955), Candida Höfer (b. 1944), Sabine Hornig (b. 1964), Jan Köchermann (b. 1967), Barbara Probst (b. 1964), Alexandra Ranner (b. 1967), Ben Rivers (b. 1972), Thomas Ruff (b. 1958), Gregor Schneider (b. 1969), Sarah Schönfeld (b. 1979), Joel Sternfeld (b. 1944), Thomas Struth (b. 1954), Guy Tillim (b. 1962), Jörn Vanhöfen (b. 1961), Jeff Wall (b. 1946) and Tobias Zielony (b. 1973).

Gursky, Höfer, Ruff, Struth, and Wall were all featured in Stefan Gronert’s large-format volume The Dusseldorf School of Photography (Aperture 2010). In the fascinating video series “Contacts: The Renewal of Contemporary Photography,” Gursky and Wall describe the methodology behind their work.

In 2005, Aperture also published Höfer’s monograph Architecture of Absence, which features her meticulously composed images of public spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence.

Gütschow, “who constructs cityscapes and landscapers that are reminiscent of well-known places, but that do not allow any true reference” for her photographs in this exhibition, did a monograph with Aperture as well in 2007 called LS/S.

Work by Joel Sternfeld was featured in Aperture issue 192 and 180. Guy Tillim appears in Aperture issue 193.

Lost Places: Sites of Photography
Exhibition on view:
June 8 – September 23, 2012

Hamberger Kunsthalle
GlockengieBerwall 20095
Hamburg, Germany
+49 (0) 40-428-131-200

Please join Aperture for some of our exciting upcoming events:

Copyright Barbara Probst

On Tuesday, March 23rd Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design will present an artist talk with Photographer Barbara Probst.

Probst is an internationally celebrated artist who lives and works in both Munich and New York and has exhibited at galleries and museums both in America and Europe. Her work examines the multiple simultaneous narratives of a single moment of exposure, triggering the shutter release of several cameras pointed at different perspectives on one scene with the use of a radio-controlled release system.

Artist Lecture with Barbara Probst
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Additionally this coming Thursday at the SVA theater a screening  of Alfredo Jaar’s film “The Ashes of Pasolini” will be followed by a conversation, presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA in partnership with Aperture, between Alfredo Jaar and filmmaker, poet and critic David Levi Strauss.

Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than fifty “public interventions” around the world, and more than forty monographs have been published about his work. David Levi Strauss is the chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA.

The Ashes of Pasolini Screening and Conversation with Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss
Thursday, MArch 25th, 7:00 pm

School of the Visual Arts
333 West 23rd Street
New York, New York

Next week Sarah Pickering and Susan Bright will be in conversation at Aperture on the occassion of Pickerings first monograph Explosions, Fires and Public Order (Aperture, April 2010).