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RENÉ BURRI @ GALERIE FOLIA
Rhénanie-Palatinat state. Town of Rheinpfalz, Germany, 1959 © René Burri / Magnum Photos
RENÉ BURRI: Les Allemands
4 march – 18 April 2020
OPENING on Tuesday 3rd of March from 6.30 pm
” René Burri joined Magnum Photo a decade after Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, Robert Capa and Georges Rodger founded the legendary agency in Paris and New-York in 1947. He became a member in 1959.
Around the same time, as a 24-year-old fledgling photojournalist with a German mother and a Swiss father, he began exploring his mother’s homeland, doing reportage for the illustrated press in Germany, a country divided, but in the midst of reconstruction.
He discovered a country undergoing massive industrialization, galvanized by new youth, filled with shiny new cars, lovers in bumper cars, and elegantly turned-out women. When the wall went up between the two Germanys on August 13, 1961, at a time when photo-reportage was booming, René Burri realized how important was to get those images published. To bear witness to that historical moment, and to inscribe it in our memory.”
Galerie FOLIA
13 rue de l’Abbaye
75006 Paris
Location: France, Paris Type: Black and White, Exhibition
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