25.06.2005 - 18.09.2005
The exhibition shows a collection of photographs by the internationally recognized photographer and forerunner of visual anthropology Pierre Verger.
No other twentieth-century photographer explored or documented the mutual cultural relationships and continual transfer of knowledge between Europe, Africa and both Americas as thoroughly as Pierre Verger (1902-1996). While in Europe his work remains relatively unknown, in his chosen homeland, Brazil, and reaching into Latin America, Verger has long been considered one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He played a major role as a forerunner of visual anthropology and also influenced an entire generation of artists, literary personalities and academicians on both sides of the Atlantic. His photographic work, largely created between the 1930s and 1950s, significantly contributed to understanding the (self)image of modern, multiethnic societies in the 'Black Americas' (Roger Bastide). In Germany, Verger became known through Hubert Fichte and Eleonore Mau, whose publications Xango and Petersilie could only be completed thanks to his support.
The exhibition is a project of the Goethe-Institut and the Pierre Verger Foundation Salvador/Bahia, in cooperation with the Museum of Ethnology Berlin-Dahlem, the Museum of World Cultures Frankfurt a.M., the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, the State Museum of Ethnology Munich and the publishing house Das Wunderhorn Heidelberg. Under the patronage of the Brazilian minister of culture. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
gallery of the exhibition
No other twentieth-century photographer explored or documented the mutual cultural relationships and continual transfer of knowledge between Europe, Africa and both Americas as thoroughly as Pierre Verger (1902-1996). While in Europe his work remains relatively unknown, in his chosen homeland, Brazil, and reaching into Latin America, Verger has long been considered one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He played a major role as a forerunner of visual anthropology and also influenced an entire generation of artists, literary personalities and academicians on both sides of the Atlantic. His photographic work, largely created between the 1930s and 1950s, significantly contributed to understanding the (self)image of modern, multiethnic societies in the 'Black Americas' (Roger Bastide). In Germany, Verger became known through Hubert Fichte and Eleonore Mau, whose publications Xango and Petersilie could only be completed thanks to his support.
The exhibition is a project of the Goethe-Institut and the Pierre Verger Foundation Salvador/Bahia, in cooperation with the Museum of Ethnology Berlin-Dahlem, the Museum of World Cultures Frankfurt a.M., the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, the State Museum of Ethnology Munich and the publishing house Das Wunderhorn Heidelberg. Under the patronage of the Brazilian minister of culture. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
gallery of the exhibition