- ME MYSELF AND I - IN PICASSO MUSEUM MALAGA

What could be a good reason to mix people like Robert Capa, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn or Richard Avedon in an exhibition? Where’s the relation with Pablo Picasso?

Picasso by Robert Capa



From the 5th of March till the 10th of June 2012 Picasso Museum Malaga offers a ‘foto-biography’ exhibition in which some 40 pictures from the contemporary artists (photographers) as named before will be shown. The philosophy of the exhibition, a “collective portrait”, is to go over the history of photography, which definitely had its high-lights in the 20th century, like Picasso, in relation with the influence of Picasso‘s work.

MeMyselfanI was shown in Cologne, Germany since last September (2011) and will travel to the Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe in Hamburg, after the Malaga show. The whole exposition MeMyselfandI, Photo Portraits of Picasso forms part of the “Picasso 20 Looks” programme. The collection of pictures on itself is a thoroughly compilation of portraits of Picasso created by undeniable contemporary artists like Penn, Avedon, Man Ray, Cartier Bresson, etc.



ROBERT CAPA

Born in Hungary in 1913 (+1954), this action photojournalist is most famous for the war photo documentaries he made. He did the World Wars, the Spanish Civil War and the Arab Israeli War of 1948 inter alia.



MAN RAY

Avant-garde photographer, Modernist and big influence in the Surrealism and Dadaism, born in Pennsylvania USA, in 1890 (+1976) but spent most of his artistic carreer in Paris, France. By some people in the world of art sometimes called one of the 25 most important and influential artists of the twentieth century.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Considered the godfather of Photojournalism born in Chanteloup en Brie, France, in 1908 (+2004), this French photographer was a master in candid photography and cultivator of the real life reportages and street photography.

IRVING PENN

Work of Irving Penn

Basically a fashion (he worked for Vogue magazine for years) and portrait photographer, but also made paintings. American artist born in 1917 (+2009) and definitely the founder of Minimal photography by putting objects just in front of a decorative and simple background like a white or black wall.

RICHARD AVEDON

Born in New York in 1923 (+2004) to a Russian Jewish family, this photographer was considered to be the biggest in defining in his work the image of the United States of America in culture, beauty and style in the second half of last century.