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AUSTRIA / Wien: Black & White
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday January 17 2016

Albertina
T : +43 (0)1 534 83-0
Albertinaplatz 1
1010 Wien
Austria



With the exhibition Black & White, the Albertina establishes a new exhibiting format as a regular fixture of the programme: the Photographic Collection will from now on be using its recently completed Galleries for Photography to show periodically changing exhibitions selected from its approximately 100,000 photos.

Black & White will open this series with the presentation of around 110 masterpieces. The exhibition will afford a look into the museum’s extensive photographic holdings that reflects the structure of the Photographic Collection, which was created in 1999. While its core includes important treasures from the history of photography that had already been held as part of the Albertina’s Graphic Art Collection, the museum also integrated two other large collections: the historical collection of the Viennese commercial arts school Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt and the photo archive of the German photography-oriented book publisher Langewiesche. Over the 17 years since then, further intensive collecting efforts have given rise to additional focuses such as Street Photography.

© Modem