# Dusseldorf's photography academy exhibition

Objectivités. La photographie à Dusseldorf is a quite interesting exhibition in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris about Dusseldorf school of photography since 1976 when Bernd Becher arrived to the head of the department.
Artists are Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Klaus Mettig, Simone Nieweg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Katharina Sieverding, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich.


Bernd & Hilla Becher

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

Andreas Gursky (see here a short portfolio about how Gursky modifies subtly his photographs in order to reveal a new space).

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