BERLIN DAYZ
Berlin Designs: Zeitgeist Becomes Form – German Fashion Photography 1945 - 1995
18 Oct – 12 Nov
Mon – Fri 9.00am - 5.00pm
Australian Academy of Design
220 Ingles Street, Port Melbourne
Free Admission
Tel.: +61 3 96769000
„Mode ist der kürzeste Reflektor des Zeitgeistes, und der ist ein verdammt launischer Geselle.“ (Karl Lagerfeld, Designer)
German Fashion Photography 1945–1995, curated by FC Gundlach, is more than just a simple history of fashion and how it was photographed. This exhibition offers an overview, comprising a myriad of facets, which covers 50 years of our lives and times. The pictorial language of the photographers, the model, her or his pose as well as the clothing, the background, and the technical quality of the photography take the viewer far beyond the respective 'ins', fads and trends of fashion. They provide information of extraordinary interest about the so-called Zeitgeist, about changes in society, codes of morality, and the feelings and longings of people at a certain point in time. The increasing internationalisation of fashion photos, beginning in the 1960s, is documented, along with the renunciation of a photographic ideal, which was most predominant in the illustration of details of the creations of a given couturier. The question of whether – in our 'village of world media' (Umberto Eco) – a German dialect can be heard, is to be answered in this exhibition.
Accompanying Events at Australian Academy of Design:
Comrade Couture
Film screening
Fri 22 Oct, 1.00pm – 2.30pm
Opening Reception
Tue 26 Oct, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Fashion Accessories Show and Finissage
Fri 12 Nov, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Presented by the Australian Academy of Design in cooperation with ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) and the Goethe-Institut Australia.
