Mads Nissen Meets Europe’s First Photographers

Young women in the Paris of the 1930s, milkboys in bare toes on Gammel Kongevej and Russian homosexuals. Selected photographs (1839 to 1939) from European archives are juxtaposed with and elucidated by award-winning Danish photographer MadsNissen’s photographs in the new photography exhibit ”Tomorrows and Yesterdays: MadsNissen Meets Europe’s First Photographers”, that opens May 13 at The Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen.

The exhibitions shows 100 specially selected photographs from 1839 to 1939 in interplay with 50 photo commentaries by photographer MadsNissen. Nissen’s encounter with some of Europe’s first photographers reveals a stubborn determination to document the contemporary age, and the courage to reflect on what tomorrow brings, subjectively and emotionally.

The exhibition takes part in the European travelling exhibition “All Our Yesterdays” and runs through August 16, 2015.

“All Our Yesterdays” is the result of the inter-European digitization project EuropeanaPhotography which comprises 18 archives, and which has digitized close to 500,000 pictures from the childhood of photography. The Workers’ Museum and its library and archive, ABA, have contributed 25,000 scanned and metadated photographs from their unique photography archives.

For further informaion see: Europeana Portal, EuropeanaPhotography, All Our Yesterdays,  Tomorrows and Yesterdays og Mads Nissen