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With their collection, Cologne-based couple Ute and Eberhard Garnatz impressively demonstrate just how inspiring and contemporary a private art collection can actually be. Over decades they have assembled a body of work that celebrates painting just as much as photography. Sculptural works also form part of the collection. The Garnatz Collection bears witness to their enthusiasm and keen sense of quality. The ­proximity to the artists has always been important to them. Rather than owning a singular work, they follow the artistic development, and in some cases remain in exchange for years. This publication ­focuses on the photographic aspect of the Garnatz Collection and juxtaposes selected posi­tions with those from the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur. Particularly interesting in this respect is the documentary-conceptual ­direction, as represented by Bernd and Hilla ­Becher. The Cologne institution is entrusted with the Becher Archive, and the Garnatz Collection also contains distinctive photographs by the artist couple. Works related stylistically by Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth have been included in this context.

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Klaus Honnef, born 1939 in Tilsit, East Prussia, is a German art historian, art critic, exhibition curator and writes about artistic photography. He is the author of numerous books, was director of the Westfalischer Kunstverein (1970-1974), and exhibition director of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (1974-1999). At documenta 6 he was curator of the painting and photography departments together with Evelyn Weiss. He has arranged numerous solo exhibitions on the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Karl Blossfeldt, Hanne Darboten, Axel Hutte, Lawrence Weiner, and others. Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, born in 1961, has been director of the ""Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur"" since 2007; before that she studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. She received a scholarship from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and, as an art historian, has realized exhibitions and publications on August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Boris Becker, Jim Dine, Judith Joy Ross, Wilhelm Schurmann, among others. Her preference is for concept-oriented documentary photography. She is particularly interested in the juxtaposition of historical and young photographic positions. Claudia Schubert is a research assistant and curator at the ""Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur"", whose focus is on factual documentary photography as a means of artistic expression. Here, the art historian realizes exhibition projects and publications on William Guerrieri, Judith Joy Ross and Martin Rosswog, among others. In 2013 she received the DGPh Education Prize for photographic projects developed in schools, another focus of her work. Documentary photography, with views into the artistic-experimental field, is particularly close to her heart.

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