Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse

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'State of the Art Photography'

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse at NRW-Forum Dusseldorf

Photography is currently going through a period of change. It is not just the digital revolution that is changing the way photos are taken and the technology that is used, thus broadening possibilities: the global data space itself has become a new resource. Despite all the digitalisation, the method of producing a unique analogue photograph remains an option. Aesthetics and the way photos are ‘staged’ are changing. Migration and globalisation are new themes. The ‘new photographers’ have a different perspective on the history of photography. They have new heroes; heroes that come from history and from other disciplines. They are no longer afraid of the aural and the sublime. And they are open to new forms of presentation, to installations, to a blend of media and materials. Photography, so it would seem, has at last arrived in the free arts.

‘The future does not belong to pure photography, but to the free arts,’ says Andreas Gursky, one of the advisors of the 'State of the Art Photography' exhibition. The NRW-Forum Dusseldorf asked for photographers who are tipped to be the movers and the shakers in this field in the coming years. In an attempt to reflect this remit, each of the 40 artists/photographers who feature in this summary exhibition is represented by a collection of images or an installation.

04 February 2012 - 06 May 2012