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Structures of Identity: The Walther Collection
This exhibition shows how photographers from different cultures and historical periods have used the power of portraiture to affirm or question the social stereotypes created around themes of gender, social class and nationality. Structures of Identity invites us to reflect on how portrait photography has evolved, visualizing the political and cultural factors that shape individual and collective subjectivities, with a particular focus on the relationship between self-representation and social identity.
The exhibition begins its journey presenting remarkable examples of historical and vernacular photographs of unknown authors. Thus, the exhibition shows us how from the origins of photography in the 1840s, the portraits of individuals, from the family album to the photograph from the police, denote social hierarchies.
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This exhibition shows how photographers from different cultures and historical periods have used the power of portraiture to affirm or question the social stereotypes created around themes of gender, social class and nationality. Structures of Identity invites us to reflect on how portrait photography has evolved, visualizing the political and cultural factors that shape individual and collective subjectivities, with a particular focus on the relationship between self-representation and social identity.
The exhibition begins its journey presenting remarkable examples of historical and vernacular photographs of unknown authors. Thus, the exhibition shows us how from the origins of photography in the 1840s, the portraits of individuals, from the family album to the photograph from the police, denote social hierarchies.
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