People and Place: Leica Oskar Barnack Award 40th Anniversary
Shanghai Center of Photography is delighted to present in collaboration with Leica the exhibition 鈥淧eople and Place: Leica Oskar Barnack Award 40th Anniversary鈥�. The exhibition selects 2020 LOBA winners, whose works are displayed together with a snapshot overview of the award鈥檚 four-decade history from 1980 till now in a selection of images from past winners. This is the first time that LOBA exhibition tours to China.
On the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), the exhibition 鈥淧eople and Place鈥� represents a wonderful opportunity to look back over forty years of Leica Oskar Barnack Awards. Here, you will find touching and evocative stories, exciting discoveries through encounters with a great variety of photographic perspectives. From the launch of the award in 1980, Leica鈥檚 aim was to celebrate photographers with a 鈥渒een talent for observation and for vividly expressing the relationship between humanity and the environment鈥�. In retrospect, the LOBA award captures the shifting world of photojournalism in all its diversity and humanist concerns.
Throughout the four decades of LOBA鈥檚 history, the winning series鈥� give us visions of everyday life, the changing situation of climate, industry, science, social economy and leisure. The works of the award-winning photographers capture vital aspects of modern life, of differing communities, societies and lifestyles. They also offer glimpses into unknown worlds 鈥� as seen through LOBA鈥檚 history through the eyes of world-renown photographers such as Sebasti茫o Salgado, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Wendy Watriss, Jane Evelyn Atwood or David Turnley. Many careers received a decisive boost as a result of the LOBA.
The idea for the award came about in 1979 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth year of Oskar Barnack (1879鈥�1936). Barnack was the ingenious inventor and developer of the new type of camera, the Ur-Leica. With this milestone in camera technology, Leica revolutionized amateur photography and, in particular, the field of photojournalism, and would write an entire new chapter in photographic history.
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Shanghai Center of Photography is delighted to present in collaboration with Leica the exhibition 鈥淧eople and Place: Leica Oskar Barnack Award 40th Anniversary鈥�. The exhibition selects 2020 LOBA winners, whose works are displayed together with a snapshot overview of the award鈥檚 four-decade history from 1980 till now in a selection of images from past winners. This is the first time that LOBA exhibition tours to China.
On the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), the exhibition 鈥淧eople and Place鈥� represents a wonderful opportunity to look back over forty years of Leica Oskar Barnack Awards. Here, you will find touching and evocative stories, exciting discoveries through encounters with a great variety of photographic perspectives. From the launch of the award in 1980, Leica鈥檚 aim was to celebrate photographers with a 鈥渒een talent for observation and for vividly expressing the relationship between humanity and the environment鈥�. In retrospect, the LOBA award captures the shifting world of photojournalism in all its diversity and humanist concerns.
Throughout the four decades of LOBA鈥檚 history, the winning series鈥� give us visions of everyday life, the changing situation of climate, industry, science, social economy and leisure. The works of the award-winning photographers capture vital aspects of modern life, of differing communities, societies and lifestyles. They also offer glimpses into unknown worlds 鈥� as seen through LOBA鈥檚 history through the eyes of world-renown photographers such as Sebasti茫o Salgado, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Wendy Watriss, Jane Evelyn Atwood or David Turnley. Many careers received a decisive boost as a result of the LOBA.
The idea for the award came about in 1979 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth year of Oskar Barnack (1879鈥�1936). Barnack was the ingenious inventor and developer of the new type of camera, the Ur-Leica. With this milestone in camera technology, Leica revolutionized amateur photography and, in particular, the field of photojournalism, and would write an entire new chapter in photographic history.
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