Brandt and the Self
Stefan Moses has been making portraits of Germans for over forty years: old and young, artists and intellectuals, poor and rich, their homes and their festivities. This has made the photographer a chronicler of post-war Germany. Moses also photographed Willy Brandt during a 1965 election party in Bayreuth. The governing mayor of Berlin ran as the SPD chancellor candidate against incumbent chancellor Ludwig Erhard – and lost. The art of Stefan Moses is to bring people to a kind of self-relinquishment for photography. To leave the roles they play in society and show something of their inner self. Until 25 March, the Goethe-Institut Brussels will be exhibiting fifty of the photographer’s works in a show entitled Deutsche Vita.
