Herbert List Photographs 1930–1970

This exhibition is now closed

This comprehensive exhibition of ninety-nine works surveys the career of the West German photographer, Herbert List, from 1930 to 1970.

The works represent the photographer's diverse output. There are images taken all over Europe, some in the cities, such as Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome and London, some at lakes, and some in the Greek Islands and Crete, and all are most interesting and compelling.

There are also portraits of well-known figures such as Picasso, de Chirico, Braque, Cocteau, Chagall, Stravinsky, Somerset Maugham, and W.H. Auden, which are his most widely recognised works. List is a master of effieicient composition, even his most abstracted images maintain a strict sense of order.

The photographs of this exhibition demonstrate List's keen ability to discover and create heightened moments of unreality. One of List's recurrent themes is the disguising of self, and one image shows a man wearing a mask leaning on a table with a plate and two eggs in front of him.

This exhibition has been brought to New Zealand with the assistance of the Goethe Institute, Wellington, and the national tour has been organised by the New Zealand Art Gallery Directors' Council.

('Herbert List Photographs 1930-1970', Bulletin, No.75, p.1)