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James Abbe (1883 - 1973) has been one of the best photojournalists in the 1920ies and 1930ies. If you see a well known photo of Mae West, Josephine Baker or Charlie Chaplin from that time, its probably is an Abbe shot. When going to Europe, he left entertainment photography back in America and covered the Soviet Union, the Weimar Republic and the Spanish Civil War. He officially portrayed Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco - "Shooting Dictators is great fun," he said. Now, Cologne's Museum Ludwig will present more than 200 Abbe photos. Not to miss.

Note: At the same time, Museum Luwdig presents "Snapshots - The Eye of the Century": 520 selected works from Christian Skrein's snapshot archives. In an unique collection, Skrein has collected more than one million shapshots taken by anonymous, private photographers between 1888 and today - 1888, when George Eastman dropped his box camera on the market and made photography popular.

James Abbe
Shooting Stalin. Die "wunderbaren" Jahre des Fotografen James Abbe (1883-1973)
2004/10/02 - 2005/01/09
Museum Ludwig, Cologne