Last days to see the exhibition "Eyes Wide Open" at Porto Municipal Gallery

Less than 3 days remain to see the exhibition "Eyes Wide Open: 100 Years of Leica Photography" on view at Porto Municipal Gallery. The exhibition ends this coming Sunday, February 5th and is free.

Prepare this weekend to escape the harsh winter and head to the Municipal gallery in the city of Porto to see Leica's history and collections, which will allow the viewer a glance at the vast accumulated photography captured by Leica in the past 100 years.

The exhibition welcomed more than 20, 500 visitors since it first opened to the public, on November 30th 2016.

The exhibition "Eyes wide open - 100 years of Leica photography" is organized by Porto City Hall and curated by Hans-Michael Koetzle. There will be an extension of opening hours for these remaining days of the public showing, from 6 pm to 8 pm (Saturday and Sunday), and an extra guided tour on the last day of the expo at 5,30 pm. 

The exhibition is divided into fourteen nuclei, and explains the 35mm format impact in photography in the context of art history and Western culture, the effects of photography miniaturization in the creative work of amateurs, artists and photojournalists and especially it examines how visual language has changed over the decades and, with it, our perception of the world.

Some of the iconic names in photography are included in the exhibition: Nobuyoshi Araki, Julia Baier, Oskar Barnack, René Burri, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gérard Castello-Lopes, François Fontaine, Bruce Gilden, Eva Kemlein, Saul Leiter, Susan Meiselas, Paulo Nozolino, Victor Palla, Alexander Rodtschenko or Christer Strömholm, among others.

With this launch, Porto, by nature a creative city, offers an innovative and international quality photo exhibition that comprises historical images common to all of us and that Leica has been capturing since 1914, when Oskar Barnack, the first Leica engineer, dared to create.