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‘Undying Light. Portraits of women from the photography archive collection of the KARTA Institute’
The choice of portraits of women from the photography archive collection of the KARTA Institute made by the Iconography Team at the institute, builds a subjective image of beauty. The history of those in the portraits, and the road which the photographs took, create extraordinary stories and the fortunes of those often unknown heroines are inspiring. All the photographs will be shown to a wider audience for the first time. The works extracted from the rich collections in the Photography Archive of the KARTA Institute, have arranged themselves into an intriguing story, which inaugurates the cycle which presents a photographic narrative separated from the Archive collections.
In the space of fifteen years the Photography Archive of the KARTA Institute collected nearly 150,000 photographs with an extraordinary historical and artistic value. These include authorial collections by renowned photographers as well as family albums, given to the institute by those wanting to protect part of their own history from being forgotten.