SIBYLLE BERGEMANN

“It’s the fringes of the world that interest me, not its centre. The noninterchangeable is my concern. When there is something in faces or landscapes that doesn’t quite fit ….” Sibylle Bergemann (29 August 1941 – 2 November 2010)

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The work of one of the leading contemporary German photographers will be presented in its entirety in the SCA Galleries during August 2012. The photographs of Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann are awe-inspiring because of the diversity of their subject matter and for their astonishing insights and sensitivity. Bergemann commanded subjects such as fashion, reportage, photographic essays, urban and rural landscapes as well as portraits in an equally self-assured manner. At first known as a fashion photographer, she fast became noted for her photographic essays and her precise observations of hidden contexts.

Bergemann’s work was often serial, but the photographer also focussed on personal themes and photographic notes. From the 1960’s onwards, fashion and portrait photography in black and white and colour, being partially commissioned by SIBYLLE and Geo magazines, became the two main subject matters of her work. In 1990, she cofounded the Ostkreuz Photographers Agency. She was internationally acclaimed for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her international assignments for Stern and later for Geo.

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An exhibition by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Australien.