On German Photography Today

How’s photography doing at the dawn of the 21st century? Who are its foremost German exponents? How does it relate to other arts? Is it still a separate art?More ...

Photographers’ growing perception of themselves as artists is generally giving rise to a renaissance of traditional subjects.More ...

Photography training in postwar Germany has thrived on what turned out to be a fruitful rivalry between East and West.More ...

Many historical and social models of society are based on age groups for the purpose of systematic description; in the fine arts, the artists’ age seems to have been decisive in producing a wide range of contemporaneous styles in many periods.More ...

Although photography is an integral component of the visual arts in Germany, most of those working in this trade are concerned with design, which also has a greater economic significance.More ...

An artistic scene certainly consists not only of the producers, but also of the institutions of dissemination and, above all, of the public.More ...