24.02.2005 - 29.05.2005
The Austrian anthropologist Hugo A. Bernatzik has been renowned for the outstanding photographic documents that illustrated his ethnographic publications. Once taken out of their documentary context they reveal that they are indeed much more: the combination of the artistic approach combined with the sensitivity of the anthropologist enabled Bernatzik to produce photographs of great compository power, motion and emotion that seem almost timeless in their appeal and can truly be counted among the highlights of ethno-photography.
The Linden-Museum Stuttgart is proud to show for the very first time a selection of 89 vintage prints - now in the Conru collection in Brussels - of photographs taken by Bernatzik on a journey to the Solomon Islands and New Guinea in 1932/33.