switzerland´s first international art fair
solely dedicated to photography.
 


 


 
 
june 17 - 20, 2015

 
 
photo basel.
in 6 days photo basel opens its doors for the very first time. Today our buildup started...

bookbinder for photo basel  stammkraft for photo basel  sempex for photo basel 
at the bookbindery, in front of our location, in the hall / more picture to follow.


DRIVE IN.
Additionally of being Switzerland’s first international art fair for photography with more than 20 galleries from all over the globe, photo basel is honoured to host the special exhibition „DRIVE IN“, curated by Esther Woerdehoff in cooperation with Zürich’s Bildhalle.

DRIVE IN  DRIVE IN 
1: Tobias Madörin, Sao Paolo, Avenida Paolista, 2002, Courtesy Bildhalle Zurich / 2: Simone Kappeler, Los Angeles, 1981 / 3: Elliott Erwitt, Wyoming, 1954 / 4: Sam Shaw "Marilyne Monroe and Henry Miller", NYC, 1957, all Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

highlights.
DRIVE IN is an exhibition about cars, showing the approach of this subject by numerous photographers, from the fifties to nowadays.

When Elliott Erwitt, during and after the depression era, photographed those rolling dreams with his candid sense of humour and irony, cars, especially the very large and imposing ones, were already a landmark in the American landscape. When René Burri travelled to Brazil to document the building of modern cities, one of his most stunning photographs, «Men on a roof top, Sao Paulo, 1960», is a view of the rush hour traffic on a busy street. Simone Kappeler, another Swiss photographer, drove through America in 1981, 30 years after her fellow countryman Robert Frank, and took pictures with her Hasselblad, a Polaroid and cheap toy cameras like Diana. She saw America in colour, influenced by American movies and photography. Symbol of the American dream, of the rise of the middle class and of individualism through the whole XXth century, cars appear in a great amount of photographies.

With the rise of Street Photography, cars were bound to peep out on most photos taken. Still cars are photographed not only as a transportation device through the packed streets of cities or in the great outdoors emptiness but also as a traveling place of intimacy in the public space, where people talk, eat, sleep, love, as in a ever moving home. For photographers, cars are elements of decor, mechanical sculptures with their own modern aesthetic, frames that echoes the camera’s viewfinder but also boxes where small scenes take place between people as in a moving theatre. Cars ends up belonging to a cinematographic imaginary and become a subject for their own aesthetic qualities of machines and the symbolic of speed, power and freedom they convey.


general info.
Switzerland’s first art fair solely dedicated to photography opens takes place from June 17th to 20th – parallel to Art Basel.


see you soon.
we are looking forward to welcoming you in person at photo basel 2015 -
your photo basel team


for more information please visit
www.photo-basel.com.

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