Δ INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS DAY

“Disruptive Images”

How are images ascribed meaning? In our media age, we are strongly influenced by visual impressions. Our perception of other countries and cultures are also shaped by images from the internet, advertising, reporting and films. Even in the nineteenth century, missionaries, scholars, journalists, artists, commercial travelers and others brought photographs from all over the world here to Frankfurt. Some of these photos became public through their use as pictures for image campaigns, on posters or in exhibitions.

After a brief introduction in the Weltkulturen Museum’s Film and Image Archive, we take a selection of archive photographs to discuss how far images coin our ideas about civilization and culture, and how far these perceptions are passed on, even down the generations, and can thus also influence our perception of immigrants.

Learn more about the exhibition “THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

Registration required
€9
For adults
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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