Richard Avedon Exhibition Berlin
January 20, 2009
I made a video of some installation shots I took last week at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, where they showed a large retrospective of Richard Avedon.
No doubt, Richard Avedon is and was one of the greatest portrait photographers EVER. He took countless strong and outstanding photographs, was a master of technique and printing and published some awesome photo books.
Nevertheless, I was kind of disappionted by the Berlin exhibition that closed yesterday. First of all, there was not enough space for all the pictures, what you can see in one of the last pictures of the video. The room that showed Avedons “In the American West” series was so full, that in my opinion the photographs lost a lot of their power. And second, these beautiful prints were mounted on massive aluminum pieces which just doesn’t look good – framed they would look so much more precious, wouldn’t they?
