Since the beginning of pictorial production, the Rhine, Europe's most celebrates river, has been the subject of numerous paintings, drawings, and engravings. By and large, these images of the Rhine create and model collective notions that influence our perception of the river to this very day, alternating between testimony and myth, between cliche and art.The exhibition and catalogue explores the ambivalent correlation between river and image based on photography, this modern technical process that occupies in a special field of tension between reality and imagination. More than sixty renowned photographers, primarily from the countries adjacent to the Rhine-Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands-present a spectrum of photographic positions that range from documentary and photojournalistic to artistic. The featured photographers: Valeska Achenbach, Bernd Arnold, Boris Becker, Wout Berger, Rolf-Georg Bitsch, Kurt Boecker, Rene Boell, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chargesheimer, Fritz Christian, Hermann Claasen, Jojakim Cortis, Theodor Creifelds, William England, Hannes Maria Flach, Francis Frith, Arthur Grimm, Ruth Hallensleben, Robert Hausser, Hans Heinig, Heinz Held, Claudio Hils, Candida Hoefer, Bernd Hoff, Heinrich Hoffmann, Ralf Kaspers, Barbara Klemm, Wilhelm Koch, Michael Lange, Herbert List, Ute Mahler, Werner Mantz, Martin Manz, Charles Marville, Reinhard Matz, Lee Miller, Paul Nathrath, Cas Oorthuys, Isabela Pacini, Ugo Proietti, Gabriele Putz, Erwin Quedenfeldt, Max Regenberg, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Gerhard Richter, Frits J. Rotgans, August Sander, Theo Schafgans, Nora Schattauer, Jos Schmid, Kris Scholz, Wilhelm Schurmann, Joachim Schumacher, Friedrich Seidenstucker, Adrian Sonderegger, Axel Stoffers, Eusebius Wirdeier, Wolfgang Zurborn Exhibition: LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn 9.9.2016-22.1.2017

Text by: Adelheid Komenda, Christoph Schaden, Gerald Schroeder, Mona Schubert