# @bmwgroupculture on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B6mc_QMl5Zs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73249299-bmwgroupculture-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-12-28T03:21:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BMW Group Culture (@bmwgroupculture) — https://gondola.cc/bmwgroupculture

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#BMWArtGuide by Independent_Collectors | Describing the beginnings of his interest in collecting contemporary African photography, Artur Walther, the founder of the Walther Collection (WaltherCollect), said the following: ’It was a difficult step to move beyond what is familiar to me.’ It was a step Walther took nonetheless, and, in doing so, demonstrated a defining feature of his approach to collecting art — a determination to see collecting as a form of education rather than a mere pastime. ’I struggled with each individual picture,’ Walther tells his interviewer, ’I had to get out of myself and my preconceptions, borders, and limits.’ The words Walther uses — struggle, difficult, limits, borders — are not words that one might immediately associate with art collecting, but, as Walther has explained, collecting is not about simply amassing a horde of objects, but about research and context, discovering why an image is significant, and what it may tell viewers about the time in which it was taken as well as the present. ⁣
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The Walther Collection reminds its audiences that while a photograph is often the site of a struggle, the struggle can be a site where tremendous beauty is born. #IndependentCollectors #BMWGroupCulture⁣
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📸: Installation view at the #WaltherCollection.

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