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Die Photographische Sammlung is the photography museum of the , the cultural foundation of the bank in
The museum sometimes lends the photographs from the original archive for exhibits about Sander, his work and that of his contemporaries. The museum was one of the organizers of the Bernd & Hila Becher show at the
Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...
, Germany. The full name is usually stylized Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur. The collection includes an archive of the photographs of August Sander
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait photography, portrait and Documentary photography, documentary photographer. His first book ''Face of our Time'' (German: ''Antlitz der Zeit'') was published in 1929. Sande ...
.
History
The museum was founded in 1992 after the SK Stiftung Kultur bought the archive of the photographs ofAugust Sander
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait photography, portrait and Documentary photography, documentary photographer. His first book ''Face of our Time'' (German: ''Antlitz der Zeit'') was published in 1929. Sande ...
. from Gerd Sander, August Sander's grandson.SEYMOUR, T. Major court battle looms over August Sander NFT launch. Art Newspaper, '' . l.', v. 31, n. 345, p. 12, 2022. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=156773093&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 16 dez. 2022.
On February 10, 2022, claiming fair use
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, August's great-grandson Julian Sander released the entire archive online as almost free (other than a small admin fee) non fungible tokens (NFT) made available via the OpenSea
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NFT marketplace. SK Stiftung Kultur issued a copyright infringement notice to OpenSea, stating that it held the copyright of the archive until 2032.
Activities
The museum sometimes lends the photographs from the original archive for exhibits about Sander, his work and that of his contemporaries. The museum was one of the organizers of the Bernd & Hila Becher show at the Met Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...
in 2022.
The collection includes over 30,000 photographs from around the world. In 2021, the museum published ''From Becher to Blume:Photographs from the Garnatz Collection and Die Photographische Sammlung-SK Stiftung Kultur, in Dialogue''.
See also
* Judith Joy Ross * Tata Ronkholz * Rosalind Fox Solomon * Henry Wessel Jr.References
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