LONG BEACH, CA.- The University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, presents Barbara Klemm: Light and Dark, an exhibition by the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), 124 iconic black-and-white photographs by one of Germany's most distinguished photojournalists. Taken while on assignment for newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Klemm’s photos capture forty years of cultural, social, and political history in the formerly divided nation, creating icons of contemporary European history.

Curated by German art historians Matthias Flügge and Ursula Zeller, both of whom worked closely with Klemm, the exhibition chronicles some of the most decisive events in German history, perhaps most memorably during 1989 reunification of East and West Germany. Though the majority of photographs, which Klemm herself calls “action in condensed form,” were taken on assignment, she created a body of photographs which combine the documentary and the artistic in a manner seldom encountered in German press photography.

The exhibition is on view from September 6 to December 14, 2014. The museum is fortunate to host the exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989). As a supplement to the exhibition, the UAM will display artifacts and ephemera from the archive of Dr. Tom Frazier, CSULB Geography professor and post-reunification Berlin scholar. Multidisciplinary programming will be offered throughout the semester in collaboration with CSULB faculty, scholars renowned in their respective fields.