Oliviero Toscani, Kissing-nun, 1992
© Copyright 1991 Benetton Group S.p.A.
CONTROVERSIES. THE LAW, ETHICS and PHOTOGRAPHY
15 October 2010 - 06. February 2011
Exposition du 15 octobre 2010 au 06 février 2011.
Opening: Thursday 14 October 2010, 18:30
Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA)
DISPLAY01 1b, rue du Centenaire L-3475 Dudelange, Luxembourg
Fon: +352 52 24 24 1 Fax: +352 52 06 55
info@cna.etat.lu
www.cna.lu
Marc Garanger, Portrait de Cherid Barkaoun, Algérie 1960-1961
© Photo Marc Garanger
Legal, ethical and political controversies have accompanied the entire history of photography since its invention in 1839. The rules that apply – or do not apply – to journalistic and artistic photographs today are the consequences of these conflicts and debates. Nevertheless, they are constantly being questioned and challenged anew. The exhibition CONTROVERSIES. THE LAW, ETHICS and PHOTOGRAPHY documents this tension-laden history through numerous case studies. Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to form their own opinions – for the middle course between premature censorship and uncompromising freedom of expression remains a delicate matter of subjective assessment. The exhibition focuses on works that have overstepped boundaries and newly defined them, thus shedding light not only on the medium of photography but above all on the respective times, on society and on court decisions; in short, it focuses on great but often problematic moments in the history of photography.
An Exhibition produced by the Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne).Curators of the exhibition : Daniel Girardin, Senior Curator of the Musée de l’Elysée and Christian Pirker, Attorney at Law in Geneva. Associate curator for CNA: Marguy Conzémius and Michèle Walerich.
Provand Captain & Indre Shira, The Brown Lady, 1936
NASA, Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, July 20, 1969 © NASA, Washington, DR
Anonyme, Abou Ghraïb, Irak, 2004 © DR
www.photography-now.com
Torstr. 218 | 10115 Berlin | Editor: Claudia Stein
contact@photography-now.com | T +49.30.24 34 27 80
