War photography is regarded as a matter for men. Also, women are documenting death and suffering on the fronts of this world. An exhibition in Düsseldorf shows how War photographers in the wars in the 20th century. and 21. Century.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Gerda Taro: The Anti-Fascist
The Jewess Gerda Taro had to flee from Germany in 1933, and in 1936, went with Robert Capa to Spain in order to document the civil war photographically. They sympathized with the Republican resistance fighters against Franco and kept everything in the picture: the shooting exercises of a Milizionärin on the beach. Taro’s groundbreaking Work influenced the perception of the civil war.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Taro: women and children first
Taro quickly made a name, even though she published her photos under Capa’s name and many of the pictures were later attributed to him alone. The focus of your civil war photographs of civilians – particularly women and children were again and again as refugees in the South of Spain. Taro was the first war photographer, came in the Front.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Lee Miller: For the “Vogue” in the war
As one of the four journalists was accompanied by Vogue photographer Lee Miller towards the end of the Second world war the US Army to Europe. Here’s your impressive images to get from the liberation of the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Before the war, she was part of the surrealist circle, and was friends with Man Ray. The composition of the picture shows Miller’s artistic approach.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Carolyn Cole: America’s wars in front of the lens
Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times has made a name for himself as a photo-journalist who focuses mainly on natural disasters and conflicts in Central America. After the terrorist attack on September 11. September 2001 in the USA, she followed the US troops to Afghanistan, later in Iraq. Later, they moved the consequences of natural disasters in the focus of their work.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Françoise Demulder: Award-Winning Massacre
The Frenchwoman Françoise Demulder photographed the withdrawal of the Americans from the Vietnam war. Later, they held the civil war in Lebanon in the picture. Here is also this photo of a massacre in a Palestinian refugee camp. For this you 1977 was the first woman to receive the World Press Photo Award, even though the photo should initially not be published.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Susan Meiselas and the “Aestheticization of war”
The war photography of the 20th century. Century is mainly Black/White. As Susan brought Meiselas is one of the first photographers of color into the game, sparked a controversy about the “Aestheticization of war”. Your pictures from Central America have sensitized the Public to the suffering of the civilians in the war, here in Nicaragua for travelers who have a military control.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Christine Spengler: Goya greetings
Grew up in Madrid, Christine Spengler called the Spanish art as an influence. For example, the composition style of Velazquez. Or Goya’s ability to capture the dark side of humanity in his pictures. “Fortunately, you never get used to the horror,” said Spengler, who has photographed conflicts in Northern Ireland (in the picture), Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, and Palestine.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Catherine Leroy: The views of both sides
War photography tends sometimes to one-sidedness and focused either on civilians or just soldiers. Catherine Leroy wanted to show in Vietnam, both sides. Here she turned her camera on a soldier of the US Marines, wounded in the battle killed comrades. Decades later, she visited him, to learn what effect the war had on his life.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Anja niedring house: Back in the war
Anja niedring house began her career in Bosnia. Again and again they returned to the conflict regions, the course of the war later. They often worked in Afghanistan, where this picture was taken – and where you 2014 for the press Agency AP has been killed. The Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf shows in the exhibition “a photographer on the inside of the Front” alone, 80 of your Work.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Gerda Taro: The Anti-Fascist
The Jewess Gerda Taro had to flee from Germany in 1933, and in 1936, went with Robert Capa to Spain in order to document the civil war photographically. They sympathized with the Republican resistance fighters against Franco and kept everything in the picture: the shooting exercises of a Milizionärin on the beach. Taro’s groundbreaking Work influenced the perception of the civil war.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Taro: women and children first
Taro quickly made a name, even though she published her photos under Capa’s name and many of the pictures were later attributed to him alone. The focus of your civil war photographs of civilians – particularly women and children were again and again as refugees in the South of Spain. Taro was the first war photographer, came in the Front.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Lee Miller: For the “Vogue” in the war
As one of the four journalists was accompanied by Vogue photographer Lee Miller towards the end of the Second world war the US Army to Europe. Here’s your impressive images to get from the liberation of the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Before the war, she was part of the surrealist circle, and was friends with Man Ray. The composition of the picture shows Miller’s artistic approach.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Carolyn Cole: America’s wars in front of the lens
Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times has made a name for himself as a photo-journalist who focuses mainly on natural disasters and conflicts in Central America. After the terrorist attack on September 11. September 2001 in the USA, she followed the US troops to Afghanistan, later in Iraq. Later, they moved the consequences of natural disasters in the focus of their work.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Françoise Demulder: Award-Winning Massacre
The Frenchwoman Françoise Demulder photographed the withdrawal of the Americans from the Vietnam war. Later, they held the civil war in Lebanon in the picture. Here is also this photo of a massacre in a Palestinian refugee camp. For this you 1977 was the first woman to receive the World Press Photo Award, even though the photo should initially not be published.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Susan Meiselas and the “Aestheticization of war”
The war photography of the 20th century. Century is mainly Black/White. As Susan brought Meiselas is one of the first photographers of color into the game, sparked a controversy about the “Aestheticization of war”. Your pictures from Central America have sensitized the Public to the suffering of the civilians in the war, here in Nicaragua for travelers who have a military control.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Christine Spengler: Goya greetings
Grew up in Madrid, Christine Spengler called the Spanish art as an influence. For example, the composition style of Velazquez. Or Goya’s ability to capture the dark side of humanity in his pictures. “Fortunately, you never get used to the horror,” said Spengler, who has photographed conflicts in Northern Ireland (in the picture), Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, and Palestine.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Catherine Leroy: The views of both sides
War photography tends sometimes to one-sidedness and focused either on civilians or just soldiers. Catherine Leroy wanted to show in Vietnam, both sides. Here she turned her camera on a soldier of the US Marines, wounded in the battle killed comrades. Decades later, she visited him, to learn what effect the war had on his life.
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In focus: a photographer on the inside of the Front
Anja niedring house: Back in the war
Anja niedring house began her career in Bosnia. Again and again they returned to the conflict regions, the course of the war later. They often worked in Afghanistan, where this picture was taken – and where you 2014 for the press Agency AP has been killed. The Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf shows in the exhibition “a photographer on the inside of the Front” alone, 80 of your Work.
Photo journalists documented for almost a century the war. It started in the Spanish civil war in the 1930s. At that time, the new lightweight, portable cameras made it for the first time, spontaneous snapshots. But the war is still considered a male domain. This affects not only the war photographers, but also the perpetrators of atrocities.
The on 8. March at the düsseldorf art Palace opened the exhibition “a photographer moves to the inside of the Front” in the Work of eight women in the focus. The Show covers a large part of the conflicts of the 20th century. Century in pictures, and throws inside a new light on the role of war correspondent. The photos of the exhibition show women not only as victims but also as perpetrators.
“The recordings did not confirm the prejudice of a ‘female’ gaze. They show that the eight photographers of different methods and image-controlled languages, it is vivid testimony of the events store,” write the curators in the catalog. The exhibition brings together images by Gerda Taro, Anja niedring house, Carolyn Cole, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller, Françoise Demulder, Christine Spengler, and Catherine Leroy.
A child soldier in Iraq, photographed by Anja niedring house
Party take
There are shots of soldiers on the Front line as well as the impact of the wars on the civilian population. Pioneering the Work of the German photographer Gerda Taro during the Spanish civil war of 1936 to 1939.
Taro was anything other than a neutral observer. She travelled across Spain to photograph the war from the point of view of the supported Republican resistance fighters against Franco. The American essayist Susan Sontag dedicated her 2003 release of the Band’s “regarding The pain of others” the question of how war photography has changed the memory of wars. Taro’s images have helped to influence public opinion criticized you.
Taro’s photographs of women, children and refugees, documented the plight of the civilian population. Many of them landed on the front pages of prominent magazines, such as the “people’s illustrated”. As the first war photographer Taro, who was in a relationship with the legendary war photographer Robert Capa came up with 27 years at the Front. With their images, which show women during their training in the Republic military, she also asked the cliché that women were the only victims of the war.
Civilians in the Spanish civil war. Photo of Gerda Taro
Witness with the camera
This unusual view of women as Actors also appear in the work of Lee Miller. The US-American photographer and war correspondent, was eye-witness appallingly atrocities. In her photography she was able to humanize the victims of the war and personalize at the same time, the realities of the conflict in such a way that they threatened to overwhelm the readers of the Newspapers and magazines emotionally.
Miller worked for Vogue and was one of four photographers in 1944, when the allies forced the Germans in the knee. When the Americans liberated the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, noted Miller in an article they published their photographs, their contempt for the Germans. They are “obnoxious, submissive, and hypocritical”.
War in color capture
Although Miller retained much of what she saw after the end of the war, for, were their images of the other War correspondents as Inspiration. They felt encouraged to capture stories, to which their male colleagues may not have access.
One of them is the American artist Susan Meiselas. The photographer spoke about the humanitarian crises in Central and South America in the 1970s and 1980s. For her dedication she was nominated for the “Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2019”.
Behind a mask of a fighter in the civil war of Nicaragua, hiding his face, photo of Susan Meiselas
As one of the first made the American Public on the civil war in Nicaragua to the attention of. This Meiselas renounced the atrocities of the battlefields to take pictures, but relied instead on a more subtle picture language. A photo shows a white hand print on a red door; a note that had been a death in the house of a farmer.
Initially, Meiselas use of color photography was controversial. Until then, there was only footage from the war in Black-and-White. The use of color continued in the digital Arena. Today, set accents, in order to draw the viewer’s attention to certain aspects of a scene.
War in everyday life
Christine Spengler, a contemporary of Meiselas, is another photographer who has dealt with the consequences of the war for the civilian population. She was imprisoned because she had taken pictures of a regional conflict in Chad in the 1970s. During the conflict in Northern Ireland, she photographed children playing on the street. In Vietnam, you stuck with the camera, a woman who polished the boots of American GIs. In addition, she photographed women in a Chador, walked through a graveyard in Iran. In the Western Sahara, she photographed a mother carrying a child, while your dangling from the shoulder a gun.
Baby on one side, gun on the other. So the everyday life in the war. Photo by Christine Spengler
Spengler’s work seems to document at first glance, a “softer” side of the war. Their focus is on the Living and not the dead. However, it is precisely through the renunciation of the representation of the cruel sides of war, of death and destruction, Spengler is in the position to show the effects of war on everyday life. This makes the conflict for bystanders accountable.
Women provide perspectives
Spengler is no more travels today, areas in conflict. You don’t need to. The consequences of wars are on the doorstep, noticeably, says the Paris-based photographer with a view to the Situation in the jungle of Calais, where for many years the refugees lived in deplorable conditions.
Nevertheless, the images of war from distant countries came through the digital photography and the Plethora of online available images in more detail. They make the realities of war for all – whether you like it or not – visible.