Helmut Draxler: The Crisis as Form. Project Cultures and the Fate of Critical Discourse

18th May 2012, 7 pm
at Popup-Exhibition @ Bleicherweg…

Bilder im Kopf


Alice Jaeckel and Silvia Scherz
17.05.–8.06.2008
EWZ Unterwerk Selnau Zurich

Photographs shape our image of the past. The analogue photographs of past decades only have a chance of being perceived as historical documents if they are digitally processed. What pictures remain in collective memory, what pictures disappear from it? What conceptions of reality are created and passed on? A selection of photos from the extensive press photo archive of the Ringier publishing company shows Switzerland in the post-war period, an era defined by tradition on the one hand and aspirations toward modernity on the other.

Next show: "Mental Images" will be shown during the exhibition and the events of the photography platform ewz.selection 2008 (17 May – 8 Jun 08) at the EWZ-Unterwerk Selnau in Zurich.