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Koelnmesse and Internationale Photoszene Köln develop a shared umbrella brand: photo.COLOGNE

Internationale Photoszene Köln e.V. is working with IPK <festival>, Koelnmesse GmbH, the Visual Gallery at photokina and the “photokina: köln fotografiert!” event to promote Cologne as a major photography centre – the 2010 photokina will be the highlight of the city’s premiere photography festival.

In the summer of 2008, Internationale Photoszene Köln e.V. and Koelnmesse GmbH agreed to work together to promote the theme of photography in the city. The partners have formed an umbrella brand to intensify their collective efforts for 2010. IPK and Koelnmesse are designing campaigns and events to establish and promote Cologne as a leading centre for photography. Koelnmesse Executive Vice President Oliver P. Kuhrt and IPK e.V. Chairman Dr Norbert Moos announced their plans and presented the logo of the new brand at a joint press conference. The City of Cologne, represented by the Head of the Cultural Department, Professor Georg Quander, welcomes the collective activities and supports them beyond the existing financial commitment for the Internationale Photoszene. “photo.COLOGNE, die internationalen Wochen der Photographie” (“International Photography Weeks”) will be held every two years during the month of the photokina trade show.

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This year, photokina will offer its visitors a retail tour during photokina. The tour will take place on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008.

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 (3^rd show day)

9 a.m. – Bus leaves from Koeln Bahnhof (backside) to Moenchengladbach

10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Tour of CeWe Color – Moenchengladbach http://www.cewecolor.de/index.php?id=6&L=1

CeWe Color is the European market leader in industrial photofinishing supplying 50,000 retail partners in 24 countries. CeWe supplies stores and Internet retailers (e-commerce) with photographic products and develop more than 2.8 billion color prints per year.

This company has perfectly adapted to the changing needs of the imaging market –more than 70 % of CeWe’s sales are related to digital products and services. Learn about new products being developed here and how CeWe works with their network of retailers.

12:00 – bus leaves from Moenchengladbach to Cologne Weiterlesen…

With an event titled “Digital storage – film-based archiving?”, the science and technology section of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) is cooperating with photokina’s organizers to stage a presentation forum during the fair (on September 25 and 26) that will showcase the opportunities and limitations of film-based and digital archiving.

And this is a key topic, because the important problem of long-term digital picture storage remains for the most part unresolved: Anyone who fails to regularly save the data of important digital images to solutions at the next technological level – referred to as “data migration” – runs the risk of losing important images. Film, on the other hand can be preserved for long periods of time – provided it is properly processed and stored.

Today, it is perfectly possible to combine the advantages of the worlds of analogue and digital imaging. This involves making film exposures of the digital image data, which can later be redigitized if desired – a solution already being successfully used by museums, archives and professional photographers. At the presentation forum, the available storage solutions will be shown and the advantages and disadvantages of each solution will be discussed. The event will conclude with a panel discussion whose participants will explain which problems can be solved by using film-based archiving. The event venue is the Kristallsaal in the Congress Center East at the Cologne exhibition center.

There will be no fee charged for taking part in the presentation forum “Digital storage – film-based archiving?”, to ensure that everyone interested in this topic will have a chance to visit individual presentations. Weiterlesen…

From September 23 to 28, the Visual Gallery will once again be presenting the best work of internationally known photographers as well as award-winning young artists at photokina, the world’s leading fair for the photography and imaging industry.

The event will feature a special reunion of sorts, as Thomas Hoepker will display highlights from his distinguished career as a photojournalist. Hoepker received two awards in photokina’s “Jugend photographiert” (Young Imaging Days) competition back in the 1950s, when he was still in his early 20s. In 1958 Hoepker, who now lives in New York, took part in photokina’s “Deutsche Bilderschau” (German Photo Review). Further highlights at the Visual Gallery will include exhibitions from the “Cicero Gallery for Political Photography,” MAPHO (Museum for Architectural Photography), and the German Association of Freelance Photographers (BFF).

Following the event’s successful integration into the unique creative center in Hall 1 in 2006, the next Visual Gallery will once again be the focus of the “By Professionals for Professionals” meeting point. The latter brings together the Visual Gallery, the “Meet the Professionals” area, and the “Academy meets photokina” section. This year’s Visual Gallery curator will be Gérard A. Goodrow. Juliane Rückriem will organize the event. Admission to the Visual Gallery will also be free for visitors in 2008.

“Easy Rider” Dennis Hopper at the Visual Gallery
The “top act” at this year’s exhibition will be photographs by the U.S. actor and director Dennis Hopper. Long before he made his international breakthrough in 1969 with “Easy Rider,” Hopper had made a name for himself as a photographer. Between 1961 and 1967 Hopper documented the turbulent scenes of a new era with impressive images of the U.S. civil rights movement and created numerous striking portraits of the young stars of popular art from his own generation. The exhibition includes portraits of David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol. Weiterlesen…