18 February 2008 – 25 May 2008

On the Human Being. International Photography, 1900-1950

Since the birth of photography, human beings have been the main protagonists in front of the camera lens. Curated by Ute Eskildsen, Director of the Photography Department at the Museum Folkwang in Essen (Germany), the exhibition explores humankind’s fascination with deciphering the keys to its own existence, in order to recognize itself and make itself recognizable in the gaze of the other.

On the Human Being. International Photography 1900-1950 brings together 112 images, from 68 of the leading figures from the first half of the 20th century. Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, André Kertész, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Alexander Rodtchenko, August Sander and Edward Steichen are some of the photographers featured in the exhibition. Among the most striking pieces are portraits, some of well-known people, others depicting anonymous, but powerfully evocative, faces.

This exhibition will be complemented by another that the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Seville is organizing. It will be showing, in June, another selection of photographs that, under the title On the Human Being. International Photography, 1950-2000, will cover the second half of the 20th century.

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Description of the Museum

In order to hold the collection and to become the permanent home of the Museo Picasso Málaga a historical building of characteristic sixteenth century Andalusian architecture was purchased: the Palacio de Buenavista, with its blend of Renaissance and Mudejar elements.

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