until 17.08. | #4357ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 20. July 2024 an art presentation of 15 selected works from Thomas Hoepker’s oeuvre.
With the death of Thomas Hoepker, the gallery has lost one of the most important German photographers in history, but above all Hoepker the man, whom it represented for more than 20 years and presented at exhibitions and art fairs.
It comprises 15 selected works by the photographer. In addition to his portraits of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, photographs by Andy Warhol and works from Hoepker’s “Berlin Wall Children” series will also be on display.
Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024) gained his first experience with the medium of photography at the age of 14. He received two Photokina awards during his studies and from 1959 worked regularly as an advertising photographer for magazines and book publications. He devoted himself to photojournalism and later also became interested in the moving image, shooting films and working as a cameraman. In 1974, he was the first accredited photographer to go to East Berlin for Stern magazine, where he worked temporarily as art director. In 1989, Thomas Hoepker became the first German photographer to become a full member of the Magnum Photos agency and was its president from 2003 to 2007. His photojournalistic work took him to many of the world’s slums: he avoided exposing the circumstances, making the “subtle image” the defining characteristic of his visual language, which is also known as “concerned photography”. To date, Thomas Hoepker’s work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. His portraits of Muhammad Ali and his photograph of a group of people on the Hudson River in New York on September 11, 2001 are world-famous and part of numerous international art collections.
CAMERA WORK
The Berlin-based gallery CAMERA WORK was founded in 1997 and is now one of the world’s leading galleries for photographic art. Based on the historically influenced gallery name, the company has followed the philosophy from the outset of representing young contemporary artists alongside the most famous artists in the history of photography such as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Herb Ritts and Albert Watson and showing them in exhibitions in order to manifest photographic art as an independent genre within the fine arts and to give space to new positions. In addition to fashion, nude and portrait photography, CAMERA WORK focuses on the areas of staged photography, architecture and still life. CAMERA WORK exclusively represents numerous renowned contemporary artists in Germany, Europe and worldwide, including Jean Baptiste Huynh, Russell James, Eugenio Recuenco, Martin Schoeller, Christian Tagliavini, Dean West and David Yarrow. In order to establish a selection of contemporary artists on the art market and include them in CAMERA WORK’s portfolio, CAMERA WORK ran the art gallery CWC GALLERY in Berlin from 2012 to 2019. CAMERA WORK is regularly represented at leading international art fairs, including Paris Photo, Zona Maco in Mexico City, Art Central Hong Kong and Photo London.
Founded in 2001, CAMERA WORK AG owns one of the world’s most comprehensive and qualitatively significant privately owned collections of photographic art with numerous vintage works by the most renowned photographic artists from the 19th century to the present day. From 2006 to 2019, CAMERA WORK AG managed the museum THE KENNEDYS in Berlin.
Exhibitio dates: Saturday, 20. July until Saturday, 17. August 2024
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Caption Title image: Works from Thomas Hoepker’s oeuvre: Kinder an der Berliner Mauer, Muhammad Ali, Bürgermeister Willy Brandt.
Art presentation Thomas Hoepkers | Camera Work | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin