Vienna, Austria – In autumn 2008, the Bank Austria Kunstforum will be presenting 270 highlights from the FOTOGRAFIS collection. After two decades – the last FOTOGRAFIS exhibition was in 1986.  In the FOTOGRAFIS collection, started in 1976, the Bank Austria owns one of the earliest and most outstanding collections of photography in Europe. The exhibition FOTOGRAFIS collection updates positions in the history of photography, stylistic strategies of pictorialism and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) of yore will be placed side by side with recent works. Alfred Stieglitz for instance enters into dialogue with Andreas Gursky, Albert Renger Patzsch with Candida Höfer, James Welling and Edward Burtynsky.