Young policeman wearing sunglasses at the open house of the police academy in Ruhleben, Berlin, 1975 by Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer
From 19th century pictorialism to the interwar avant-garde of Bauhaus, Kicken’s collections include the new vision and new objectivity, the influential Czech modernism, the international movement of subjective photography originating in Germany in the 1950s, American new colour photography and the artistic documentary movements in both East and West Germany since the 1970s, to name but a few
Photograph: Courtesy VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2024