{"id":1686,"date":"2018-07-06T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:07:37","slug":"polaroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/polaroid\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MAGIC OF THE POLAROID"},"content":{"rendered":"

C\/O Berlin<\/a> is exploring the Polaroid phenomenon in two dedicated exhibitions \u2013\u00a0Wim Wenders . Instant Stories <\/b>and The Polaroid Project \u2013<\/b>\u00a0both running from July 07 to September 23, 2018.<\/b><\/p>\n

WIM WENDERS . INSTANT STORIES<\/b><\/h6>\n

Photography was part of Wenders\u2019 life from an early age. He received a Leica from his father when he was just six years old. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Polaroids were his preferred photographic medium\u2014a complimentary tool for research on his films and a daily companion. Wenders\u2019 Polaroid photos are autobiographical, opening up windows into different stages of his life. They were a visual notebook, a field of experimentation, and travel report. The resulting collection of pictures includes thousands of unique, personal shots of his film sets and travels. They show Wenders in his personal surroundings and portraits of celebrities and friends including Annie Leibovitz, Robby M\u00fcller, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Handke.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition Wim Wenders . Instant Stories, presenting a selection of approximately 240 Polaroids by the award-winning director, filmmaker, and artist Wim Wenders, will be making its first and only stop in Germany at C\/O Berlin.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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THE POLAROID PROJECT<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n

A whir, a click, and just a few seconds later\u2014without darkroom or negative\u2014an instant photo appears in its familiar white frame as if by magic. The charm of capturing the spontaneous and uncontrived together with the speed of processing made the Polaroid popular among amateurs and professionals alike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

World-renowned artists shaped the aesthetic of an era through their use of instant photography. In its Artist Support Program<\/i>, Polaroid furthered the work of many artists by equipping them with cameras and film. The exchange between artists and the Polaroid corporation was the foundation for the spectacular and rapidly growing Polaroid Collection, housed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Amsterdam. The brand\u2019s popularity quickly spread, and even achieved a degree of cult status, and today makes for a rich chapter of both photographic and cultural history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A longing for the unrepeatable moment, pleasure in the haptic quality of the image as object, and a certain nostalgia in the face of the daily deluge of electronic imagery\u2014all these factors have given instant photography a new and irresistible appeal, even for the younger generation in the age of digitalization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

C\/O Berlin is pleased to present the exhibition The Polaroid Project, including works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Sibylle Bergemann, Chuck Close, Guy Bourdin, Barbara Crane, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschen- berg, Erwin Wurm, and many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

C\/O Berlin im Amerika Haus<\/a><\/div>\n
Hardenbergstr. 22\u201324, Berlin-Charlottenburg<\/div>\n
Open daily 11-8<\/div>\n
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Photo Credits:<\/div>\n
1 Wim Wenders, reluctant, unknown photographer, 1971\u00a0<\/div>\n
2 New York Parade, 1972<\/div>\n
3 New York postcard, 1972<\/div>\n
\u00a9 Wim Wenders . Courtesy Wim Wenders Foundation<\/div>\n
4 Guy Bourdin, Charles Jourdan 1978 \u00a9 The Guy Bourdin Estate 2017 \/ Courtesy of Louise Alexander Gallery<\/div>\n
5 & 6 Dennis Hopper, Los Angeles, Back Alley, from the Series Colors, 1987\u00a0\u00a9 Dennis Hopper \/ Courtesy of The Hopper Art Trust<\/p>\n
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C\/O Berlin is exploring the Polaroid phenomenon in two dedicated exhibitions \u2013\u00a0Wim Wenders . Instant Stories and The Polaroid Project \u2013\u00a0both running from July 07 to September 23, 2018. WIM WENDERS . INSTANT STORIES Photography was part of Wenders\u2019 life from an early age. He received a Leica from his father when he was just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yun-berlin.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}