Starting March 19, 2022, CAMERA WORK Gallery presents the exhibition “Witnessing History”, dedicated to the significant history of photojournalism with 40 impressive works by over 20 world-famous photographers. On display and contextualized are visual documents from nearly 80 years of world history that have made history and become an integral part of the collective memory. These icons come from CAMERA WORK’s renowned collection or are works by those photographers whom CAMERA WORK Gallery has represented for many years.

Beginning in 1935, with a work by Dorothea Lange, who would go on to create the definitive reportage photograph of the century just one year later, with the portrait “Migrant Mother,” the exhibition continues into 2011 and concludes with arguably one of the most famous icons of the past decade: the view through the camera of official White House photographer Pete Souza into the “Situation Room” as U.S. President Barack Obama and parts of his administration receive an update on the U.S. military operation to locate al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The analysis of this photography has historic proportions.