From the Traditional Forms of Photography to Auteur Photography — The tradition of the classical portrait (Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol) or socially critical portraits (Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Gottfried Helnwein or Santiago Sierra), new narrativity (Ilya Kabakov, Theresa Hubbard – Alexander Birchler), milieu studies (Tracey Moffatt, Andy Warhol, Taryn Simon, Santiago Sierra), gender and self-staging (Robert Mapplethorpe, Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince), urban and conceptual studies (Thomas Struth, Anatolij Shuravlev, Andreas Gursky, Ryuji Miyamoto), socio-political research (Jochen Gerz, Christian Boltanski, Sibylle Bergemann), contexts embracing several genres (Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, Sigmar Polke, Mario Merz)...