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Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45
8400 Wintherthur
Switzerland
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04.11.2009

GoSee Trip Tip : KARAOKE – Visual Quotes, at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Have you seen these or ones like these before? Countless amenities, information and images make their mark on us: at school or in our careers, in magazines or the internet. They are all influenced by a multiplicity of subliminal codes. Daily we navigate our way through word and …

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR : Karaoke – Bildformen des Zitats
26.11.2008

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Walter Pfeiffer - "In Love With Beauty"

An underground classic for years, Walter Pfeiffer (*1946 Beggingen, lives in Zurich) has developed a unique blend of eroticism and wit, classical serenity and ornamental playfulness, artifice and immediacy that has begun to garner major international attention in the past few years. Fotomuseum …

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR : Walter PFEIFFER *In Love With Beauty*, Ohne Titel, 2004 C-Print, 59 x 39,5 cm
12.09.2008

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Darkside - Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed

Photography depicts and stylises lust and passion, fantasy and longing, power and violence, voyeurism and self image, all within sexuality. All of this is explored in the current exhibition and book project, titled "Darkside".

Fantasising and lusting make an exciting pact …

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR : DARKSIDE – Fotografische Begierde und fotografierte Sexualität - Sylvia Plachy : Memories O' Love, Malibu, 1996 (Liebesandenken) / Silbergelatine-Abzug, 50,8 x 61 cm ; Courtesy der Künstlerin
24.11.2007

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Zoe Leonard

From 1 December until 17 February 2008, the photo museum in Witerthur will present work by American photographer and two time Participant to the Documenta - Zoe Leonard (*1961 in Liberty, New York). Over the past twenty years the artist has been picking up on themes such as the …

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR : Zoe Leonard  *Praga Market, Warsaw, 1999*
04.09.2007

Fotomuseum Winterthur : NeoRealismo - Photography in Italy

An exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur presents 230 pieces by 75 photographers on the subject of Neo-Realism. In the accompanying book *NeoRealismo - Die neue Fotografie in Italien 1932-1960* *the new photography in Italy 1932-1960* published by Christoph Merian …

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR : NeoRealismo - Fotografie in Italien; Cesare Barzacchi
04.06.2007

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Research and Invention

The Winterthur Photo Museum by Zurich, presents Research and Invention - Investigations with Images in Contemporary Photography, an exhibition from 02.06. - 19.08.2007. The most differing photo artists were combined by curator Thomas Seelig.

Throughout its history, …

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Pierre Bismuth, Courtesy Lisson Gallery, London
29.08.2006

Photo museum Winterthur : Shomei Tomatsu *Skin of a Nation*

Since the beginning of September the photo museum is exhibiting *skin of the nation* with photos by the father of modern Japanese photography: Shomei Tomatsu.

*Skin of the nation* is a retrospective of Shomei Tomatsus works, his position in the Japanese post war avant-garde and his …

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR : Shomei Tomatsu - Skin of a nation
28.02.2006

Fotomuseum Winterthur : New photography from Switzerland

Nowadays more than ever is photography the hybrid between documentation and fiction, between the concrete and the abstract, between reality and fantasy and which brings up the subject of the split of our perception. The Winterthur Photo Museum is showing the Real Fantasies – New …

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Klodin Erb / Eliane Rutishauser
16.08.2005

Fotomuseum Winterthur : Robert Frank - Storylines

Robert Frank (born in 1924 in Zurich) is regarded as one of most influential photographers of the 20th century and was honoured with the 1996 Hasselblad Award. To mark his 80th birthday the Tate Modern put together an exhibition in cooperation with the Winterthur Photo Museum and the …

Robert Frank, *From the Bus*, 1958 © Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York