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Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's(...)
Photography and the optical unconscious
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Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche.
Theory of Photography
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As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly fluid, Solomon-Godeau, a pioneering feminist and politically engaged critic, argues that the relationships between photography, culture, gender, and power demand renewed attention. In her analyses of the photographic production of Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan(...)
Photography after photography: gender, genre, history
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As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly fluid, Solomon-Godeau, a pioneering feminist and politically engaged critic, argues that the relationships between photography, culture, gender, and power demand renewed attention. In her analyses of the photographic production of Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Meiselas, Francesca Woodman, and others, Solomon-Godeau refigures the disciplinary object of photography by considering these practices through an examination of the determinations of genre and gender as these shape the relations between photographers, their images, and their viewers.
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n 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher André Malraux (1901–1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book Le musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musée imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that illustrated art book, and Malraux was one of its(...)
The book on the floor: André Malraux and the imaginary museum
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n 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher André Malraux (1901–1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book Le musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musée imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that illustrated art book, and Malraux was one of its greatest champions. Drawing on a range of contemporary publications, he adopted images and responded to ideas. Indeed, Malraux’s book on the floor is a variation of photographer André Vigneau’s spectacular Encyclopédie photographique de l’art, published in five volumes from 1935 on—years before Malraux would enter this field. Both authors were engaged in juxtaposing artworks via photographs and publishing these photographs by the hundreds, but Malraux was the better sloganeer. Starting from a close examination of the photograph of Malraux in his salon, art historian Walter Grasskamp takes the reader back to the dawn of this genre of illustrated art book. He shows how it catalyzed the practice of comparing works of art on a global scale. He retraces the metaphor to earlier reproduction practices and highlights its ubiquity in contemporary art, ending with an homage to the other pioneer of the “museum without walls,” the unjustly forgotten Vigneau.
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Photography and Germany
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The meeting of photography and Germany evokes pioneering modernist pictures from the Weimar era and colossal digital prints that define the medium’s art practice today. It also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocity and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. This publication broadens these perceptions by examining photography’s multi-faceted(...)
Photography and Germany
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The meeting of photography and Germany evokes pioneering modernist pictures from the Weimar era and colossal digital prints that define the medium’s art practice today. It also recalls horrifying documents of wartime atrocity and the relentless surveillance of East German citizens. This publication broadens these perceptions by examining photography’s multi-faceted relationship with Germany’s turbulent cultural, political and social history. It shows how many of the same phenomena that helped generate the country’s most recognizable photographs also led to a range of lesser-known pictures that similarly documented or negotiated Germany’s cultural identity and historical ruptures.
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In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911–97) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her ''Sociological Record'': photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around twenty thousand negatives. The undertaking consumed Rydet so completely that she was never able to give it final shape through a book or an art show.(...)
Object lessons: Zofia Rydet's 'Sociological record'
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In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911–97) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her ''Sociological Record'': photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around twenty thousand negatives. The undertaking consumed Rydet so completely that she was never able to give it final shape through a book or an art show. ''Object Lessons'', a new volume of essays inspired by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, helps to dispel the myths that have formed around the project in recent years and introduces the photographer to a new global audience. Rydet herself remained unresolved over the question of how to define her work, leaving the viewer to ponder whether her magnum opus is a piece of art or science. What does remain undisputed is that ''Sociological Record'' is a striking testimony of its time.
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description(...)
Vanishing point (approches de Denis Roche)
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description que donne Denis Roche de cette prise de vue, tout en proposant une réflexion métaphysique poignante, donne naissance à une « poétique » singulière où le texte et l’image sont considérés à parts égales, déployant depuis cette « visée » une perspective où se rejoignent la mémoire et la mort, l’instant et le souvenir, la présence et l’absence, le sujet et l’objet.
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Cette publication constitue une plate-forme internationale de discussion entre artistes, écrivains, théoriciens, curateurs et historiens questionnant le statut même de la photographie aujourd'hui, notre relation à l'image, ainsi que les dimensions politiques et culturelles de celle-ci, à partir d'une mise en perspective de l'image photographique contemporaine à l'ère(...)
Après la crise : états contemporains de la photographie
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Cette publication constitue une plate-forme internationale de discussion entre artistes, écrivains, théoriciens, curateurs et historiens questionnant le statut même de la photographie aujourd'hui, notre relation à l'image, ainsi que les dimensions politiques et culturelles de celle-ci, à partir d'une mise en perspective de l'image photographique contemporaine à l'ère numérique avec la crise de la représentation à l'époque de la naissance de la photographie.
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November 2019
Theory of Photography
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Le présent recueil réunit les textes que Nicolas Bouvier a écrits sur la photographie entre 1965 et 1996. À de nombreuses occasions, l’auteur genevois avait parlé de son métier d’iconographe, notamment dans le petit livre Le hibou et la baleine, paru en 1993, mais sa réflexion sur l’acte photographique restait à découvrir. Jusqu’à ce jour, les écrits qu’il a dédié à ce(...)
Du coin de l'oeil : écrits sur la photographie
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Le présent recueil réunit les textes que Nicolas Bouvier a écrits sur la photographie entre 1965 et 1996. À de nombreuses occasions, l’auteur genevois avait parlé de son métier d’iconographe, notamment dans le petit livre Le hibou et la baleine, paru en 1993, mais sa réflexion sur l’acte photographique restait à découvrir. Jusqu’à ce jour, les écrits qu’il a dédié à ce sujet (préfaces, articles de presse, introductions à des catalogues d’exposition) restaient dispersés. Près de quarante textes se trouvent ainsi rassemblés ici. Parmi eux, certains relatent également son activité de « chercheur-traqueur d’images », qui aura été son gagne-pain durant près de trente ans.
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Trigger impact
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'Trigger' is a new platform launched by Fotomuseum Antwerpen for research, reflection, and dialogue on all things photographic. This first publication on 'Impact' is made in close collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), The Hague, and guest editor Donald Weber. It aims to cast impact as a re-enactment or assertion of radical intimacy, initiate a(...)
Trigger impact
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'Trigger' is a new platform launched by Fotomuseum Antwerpen for research, reflection, and dialogue on all things photographic. This first publication on 'Impact' is made in close collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), The Hague, and guest editor Donald Weber. It aims to cast impact as a re-enactment or assertion of radical intimacy, initiate a different gaze on the world, and show that impact can also exist within an ecology or geography of photography. Through 20 contributions by Ariella Azoulay, Lewis Bush, Taco Hidde Bakker, Andrew Jackson and Savannah Dodd, Shahidul Alam, Andrea Stultiens, and more, we learn how impact is social, participative, conflictual.
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Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The(...)
Dorothea Lange: Migrant mother, Migrant gender
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Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens. Dr. Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20thcentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano—as well as the contested image of FDR. Her numerous essays about popular mass media – Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look – extend her ongoing study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
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