Hit the mark! Favourite images from the Deutsche Fotothek, Opening on Thursday, 7 August 2025, 7 pm, Welcome: Jens Bove, Head of the Deutsche Fotothek; Introduction: Agnes Matthias, Curator Deutsche Fotothek | The Deutsche Fotothek is a guest at

Raum+Verlag bautzner69 / publish & print for the fourth time.

Since its foundation, the collection and accessibility

of photographs has been one of the central tasks of the image archive, which

is now one of the largest in the German-speaking world.

In the past, analogue research was carried out with the help of picture cards, but today users

surf through over two million digitised

images that are made available for a wide variety of purposes

: for books, newspaper articles, websites, lectures, postcards,

calendars or as prints for the wall. Almost every keyword

gives suitable, sometimes surprising hits in the database

. Last but not least, chance often reveals the diversity and abundance

of the collection.

In 2024, the Deutsche Fotothek celebrated its centenary

- the perfect occasion to invite users and colleagues to choose a "favourite image". "Favourite images" are

photographs with which there is an individual connection, which touch something

in us, which evoke memories or associations, which have been worked with

or researched, which have often been specifically

searched for, but sometimes simply found.

The result was an exhibition for the SLUB cafeteria in 2024

and a digital collection on the website. Although the jubilee year has come to an end, the "Favourite Pictures" campaign is still running.

Here you can now see a selection of many new motifs.

Short statements explain why this

or that particular picture is a personal favourite. The reasons are

as different as the users are different. The

result, however, is a revealing cross-section of the

collection of the Deutsche Fotothek, which should make you want to browse the website yourself

and

discover your own "favourite image". Will you let us know which one it is? Send submissions to:

news.fotothek@slub-dresden.de

All "favourite images" can be found under this keyword on the Deutsche Fotothek website

: www.deutschefotothek.de