Title & Author:

Mining photography : the ecological footprint of image production / edited by Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs, Tulga Beyerle.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books OHG, 2022.

Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production." -- colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Photography and climate change : the engine of reflection, and its footprint / Boaz Levin and Esther Ruelfs -- Copper and the daguerrotype / Sven Schumacher -- Coal and bitumen : fossil fuels and moorland / Esther Ruelfs -- / Paper and its coating : cotton pulp, gelatin, and celluloid / Boaz Levin -- Silver / Esther Ruelfs -- The weight of the cloud : rare earths, metals, energy, and waste / Boaz Levin -- Extractive operations : copper and the photographic image : Brett Neilson -- Bitumen / Karen Solie -- The Eastman Kodak silver vault / Siobhan Angus -- Kneeling before the printer : creativity, sustainability, and heaps and heaps of toner cartridges / Christoph Ribbat -- Digital images and the cost of resource extraction / Nadia Bozak -- Ore, lead, and natural resources as power factors / Karin Westner in conversation with Sven Schumacher -- Film as a strategic commercial product for the ORWO Filmfabrik / Rainer Redmann in conversation with Esther Ruelfs / Paper, its materiality, and transatlantic trade / Katherine "Kappy" Mintie in conversation with Boaz Levin.

Summary:

"Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—photography now relies, in the age of the smartphone, on rare earths and metals like coltan, cobalt, and europium. The exhibition focuses on the history of key raw materials utilized in photography and establishes a connection between the history of their extraction, their disposal, and climate change. Looking at historical and contemporary works, it tells the story of photography as a history of industrial production and demonstrates that the medium is deeply implicated in human-induced changes to nature. The exhibition shows contemporary works by a range of photographers and artists, including Ignacio Acosta, Lisa Barnard, F&D Cartier, Susanne Kriemann, Mary Mattingly, Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Lisa Rave, Alison Rossiter, Metabolic Studio’s Optics Division, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Anaïs Tondeur, James Welling, Noa Yafe and Tobias Zielony, along with historical works by Eduard Christian Arning, Hermann Biow, Oscar and Theodor Hofmeister, Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt, Hermann Reichling, and others, and historical material from the Agfa Foto-Historama in Leverkusen, the Eastman Kodak Archive in Rochester and the FOMU Photo Museum in Antwerp as well as mineral samples collected by Alexander von Humboldt from the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783959056564
3959056567

Subject:

Photography Environmental aspects.
Photography History.
Climatic changes.
Photography Environmental aspects Exhibitions.
Photography History Exhibitions.
Climatic changes Exhibitions.
Photographie Aspect de l'environnement Expositions.
Photographie Histoire Expositions.
Climat Changements Expositions.
Photographie Aspect de l'environnement.
Photographie Histoire.
Climat Changements.
climate change.
Photography
(Produktform)Book
Fotografie
Theorie
Klimawandel
Ökologie
(VLB-WN)1587: Hardcover, Softcover / Kunst/Fotografie, Film, Video, TV

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
History
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Levin, Boaz, 1989- editor. author.
Schumacher, Sven, author, interviewer.
Ruelfs, Esther, editor. author.
Beyerle, Tulga, editor.
Angus, Siobhan, author.
Bozak, Nadia, author.
Neilson, Brett, author.
Ribbat, Christoph, author.
Solie, Karen, 1966- author.
Westner, Karin, interviewee.
Redmann, Rainer, interviewee.
Mintie, Katherine, interviewee.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316702
Call No.: 316702
Copy: 1
Status: Available