World events. Masterpieces in reportage photography by Associated Press

Begin:	02.11.2007
End:	02.11.2008
Location:	Sinteranlage und Möllerhalle (Sintering plant and burden hall)
Entry:	daily from 10.00 a.m.

Closed the 24th and 25th december 2007.

On the occasion of the ”50 Years of the Saarland” anniversary, the Völklinger Hütte World Cultural Heritage Site is presenting world events from the last 50 years in 72 large-scale photographs. These important historical documents were taken by the best photographers and Pulitzer prizewinners from the Associated Press (AP), the world’s oldest news agency. AP has won 48 Pulitzer prizes for photography, more than any other news agency in the world.

“Memory” has almost become a foreign word in the media world. Bombarded with a surfeit of pictures in magazines, on television and on the computer, people are losing their capacity to remember individual images. And yet: there still are “pictures that go around the world”.

As if in a time machine, spectators can travel through the unforgettable events of past decades. For example, we meet again the unforgettable actress Marilyn Monroe, the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt or Pope John Paul II.

The Associated Press agency was first established as “Harbour News” in 1848 by six New York newspaper publishers. Together they ran a small sailing boat to meet ships arriving in New York from Europe and gather the latest news from the “Old World” before the ships docked. Today, AP produces some 20 million words of news and 1000 pictures all over the world – every day.

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