Bilder von Urbanisierung, Industrialisierung und dem Aufkommen von Konsumkultur und Sozialstaat – die vertraute Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts über die Umbrüche der finnischen Gesellschaft. Dieses Mal ist jedoch der Standpunkt der Arbeiterklasse. Wir sehen, wie Arbeit und Arbeiter von Dörfern in Städte, von Feldern zu Fließlinien umziehen. Beengte, dunkle Wohnungen werden durch lichtdurchflutete Vorstadthäuser ersetzt. Während ihrer Blütezeit nahm die Zentralunion der Konsumgenossenschaften (KK) alle Aspekte des Lebens in der Arbeiterklasse auf. KK baute Häuser, Geschäfte und Produktionsanlagen und bot Freizeitangebote an.
7456 x 5712 px | 63,1 x 48,4 cm | 24,9 x 19 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1957
Ort:
Finland
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Images of urbanisation, industrialisation and the emergence of consumer culture and the welfare state – the familiar 20th century story of the upheavals of Finnish society. This time, however, the vantage point is that of the working class. We see work and workers move from villages to cities, from fields to assembly lines. Cramped, dark flats are replaced by light-filled, suburban homes. During its heyday, the Central Union of Consumer Co-operatives (KK) embraced all aspects of working class life. KK constructed homes, shops and production facilities and offered free time recreation. The Union was founded in 1916 when urban co-operatives, founded by factory workers, broke off from SOK Corporation dominated by interests of agricultural producers. The widely read voice of KK in print was Kuluttajain Lehti (later Kuluttaja, Me Kuluttajat and finally Me). The images shown here are from the negative archive of the magazine, added to the collections of the Finnish Museum of Photography in 1974. It consists mainly of journalistic images taken in the 1950s and 1960s, interspersed with documentation of the Union’s activities and advertising photography. A thousand negatives from the total of about 40 000 in the collection have been digitized to celebrate the centenary of the Union, with the support of Co-operative Tradeka and the Foundation of the Consumerco-operative (Kuluttajaosuustoiminnan säätiö). The images on display are new inkjet prints. Most of the photographs in the collection can’t be attributed to any specific photographer, because the information was not routinely recorded in the archive, or pub-lished along with the pictures in print. We do know, however, that two giants of Finnish photojournalism, Kalle Kultala and Helge Heinonen, worked consecutively as the staff photographer for Kuluttajain Lehti/Kuluttaja in the early days of their respective careers: Kultala from 1950 to 1957 and Heinonen from 1957 to 1963.
