Gabriele Münter and Eudora Welty: Starting with Photography

In Montpellier, France, the exhibition “In the Beginning, Photography”, brings together the work of Gabriele Münter and Eudora Welty, who both tried their hand at photography before becoming, respectively, a painter and a writer. The show delves into their little-known oeuvre circumscribed by a shared geographic territory: the American Southeast.

Texas, summer 1900. Wearing white dresses or black suits, young people devour a gigantic slice of watermelon as they staring at the lens. “A smiling watermelon,” says the mischievous title. A few yards away, like an echo almost thirty years later, an...

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