Starting this spring, Moderna Museet Malmö will be featuring the art of photography in its earliest years in a presentation of works from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The exhibition Written in Light - Early Photography features some of the most prominent and fascinating international photographers from this period, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Nils Strindberg, Carleton E. Watkins, and many others. It also includes a contemporary work related to Nils Strindberg’s photographs: Joachim Koester’s Message from Andrée. Simultaneously with the opening of Written in Light, a presentation of Akram Zaatari’s acclaimed film installation Letter to a Refusing Pilot will open in the New Gallery. Ever since its invention, the medium of photography has been developing, changing, and taking on many different functions and roles. Portraits, nature, landscapes, and architecture were common motifs for th
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