19.03.2008

Season 2008:"World Events. Masterpieces of Reportage Photography by the Associated Press"

"World Events. Masterpieces of Reportage Photography by the Associated Press"
Photography exhibition at the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Ironworks until 2nd November, 2008 in the Möllerhalle und in the Powder Metal Facility
World events of the last 50 years have been gathered and projected onto 72 large-scale photographs in the current exhibition “World Events. Masterpiece of Reportage Photography by the Associated Press.” These are the most significant contemporary documents taken by the best photographers and Pulitzer Prize winners of the Associated Press (AP) the oldest press agency in the world. The World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Ironworks is displaying this exhibition daily from 10am till 2^nd November in the Möllerhalle and in the Powder Metal Facility. The twelfth exhibition engaging the theme of photography makes the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Ironworks one of the most powerful symbols of the industrial age with photography merging together as a child of the industrial age.

This year sees the twentieth anniversary of the historic crucial vote on the Soviet Politburo of 11^th December 1988 when Andrei Gromyko had to leave his post as Soviet Head of State to his successor Mikhail Gorbachev. Only a year later and the wall between the two separate states of East and West Germany would collapse.
And 4^th June 1998 is the 10^th anniversary of the terrible ICE train crash near Eschede in Lower Saxony in which more than 90 people lost their lives. Both events feature in the contemporary history documented in the current AP exhibition.
The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 7pm and is included in the general admission price.

An exhibition catalogue is available with illustrations of each of the photographs: 96 pages, price: 9.95 €

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