Dopostoria
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Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead-and if so, are we living in a necropolis? This book on photography, cemeteries, and the archive evolved out of an experimental research project at the Bibliotheca Hertzianain Rome, with its immense collection of canonic photographs from the history of art and(...)
March 2023
Dopostoria
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Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead-and if so, are we living in a necropolis? This book on photography, cemeteries, and the archive evolved out of an experimental research project at the Bibliotheca Hertzianain Rome, with its immense collection of canonic photographs from the history of art and architecture. An artist's book, it takes on the form of a description of an unfinished film in five acts-a cinematic fragment, so to speak: ''DOPOSTORIA.'' The title essay by Christoph Keller is complemented by two contributions on burial cultures in prehistory and in modernity from the archaeologist Maria Clara Martinelli and the modern historian Carolin Kosuch. A sequence of collages at the back of the book conjures up a phantasmagorical journey through an ancient-modern Rome.
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This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey, particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and(...)
Encounters in an archive: Objects of migration / photo-objects of art history
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This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey, particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and are now part of the “Objects of Escape – Inventories of Migration’’ archive. These objects are functional to the journey, such as biscuit tins and water bottles, passports and nautical charts, but they also relate to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, or a handful of earth from their homeland. In the installation “Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive,” Ricciardo creates a dialogue between selected objects from this archive and structures from the KHI Photothek on the other. The installation, which led to this book, raises a series of highly relevant questions about these ‘talking’ objects: who do they belong to? Are they part of the cultural heritage? What would be the appropriate artistic and curatorial approach if one decided to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them?
Theory of Photography
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This book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West--a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. The story begins just a few years after the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, as pioneering photographers followed American troops into the Mexican-American War. Taking advantage of rapidly developing(...)
Theory of Photography
October 2002, New Haven / London
Print the legend : photography and the American West
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This book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West--a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. The story begins just a few years after the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, as pioneering photographers followed American troops into the Mexican-American War. Taking advantage of rapidly developing technology, photographers soon set out across the overland trails, recorded the shifting fortunes of California’s goldseekers, pictured native peoples, and documented the spectacular topography of the American West. The new medium of photography made vivid a landscape few Americans had seen for themselves. Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, "Print the legend" offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their nation.
Theory of Photography
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Bruce Bernard was the leading picture editor of his generation, celebrated for his visual taste, knowledge and judgement of photography. In the 1990s, he was commissioned by a private client to assemble a photographic collection and set about acquiring a selection of images that represented, to his unique eye, the best work in the medium from the whole history of(...)
One hundred photographs : a collection by Bruce Bernard
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Bruce Bernard was the leading picture editor of his generation, celebrated for his visual taste, knowledge and judgement of photography. In the 1990s, he was commissioned by a private client to assemble a photographic collection and set about acquiring a selection of images that represented, to his unique eye, the best work in the medium from the whole history of photography, ranging from nineteenth-century pioneers like Muybridge and Fox Talbot to giants of the twentieth century like André Kertész, Man Ray, Brassai and Robert Frank. These one hundred photographs are the result: he does not attempt to cover every period or every notable artist, but rather includes only images that ‘truly stimulated and satisfied … and seemed could permanently continue to do so’. In other words what he considered to be classics.
Theory of Photography
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Les enjeux de la bibliothèque et de la collection photographique mises en œuvre par Aby Warburg, en tant que « laboratoire » de recherches collectives sur les formes de transmission des images depuis l'Antiquité. Une étude de cas exceptionnel, traversée par la question : quel a été l'impact de la photographie dans le tournant que Warburg marque dans l'histoire de l'art et(...)
K. B. W.: La bibliothèque Warburg, laboratoire de pensée intermédiale
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Les enjeux de la bibliothèque et de la collection photographique mises en œuvre par Aby Warburg, en tant que « laboratoire » de recherches collectives sur les formes de transmission des images depuis l'Antiquité. Une étude de cas exceptionnel, traversée par la question : quel a été l'impact de la photographie dans le tournant que Warburg marque dans l'histoire de l'art et de la culture ?
Theory of Photography
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Ce livre est le récit d'une décennie (2013-2023) d'engagements pour la reconnaissance des femmes photographes dans les lieux d'expression de l'art et les médias. Dix années d'actions, de débats, de confrontations qui ont changé profondément le milieu de la photographie en l'ouvrant à plus de diversité.
Femmes photographes : Dix ans de luttes pour sortitr de l'ombre
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Ce livre est le récit d'une décennie (2013-2023) d'engagements pour la reconnaissance des femmes photographes dans les lieux d'expression de l'art et les médias. Dix années d'actions, de débats, de confrontations qui ont changé profondément le milieu de la photographie en l'ouvrant à plus de diversité.
Theory of Photography
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''Citizens of photography'' explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political(...)
Theory of Photography
September 2023
Citizens of photography: The camera and the political imagination
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''Citizens of photography'' explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political representation and photographic representation. The authors emphasize photography as lived practice and how photography’s performative, transformative, and transgressive possibilities facilitate the articulation of new identities. They analyze photography ranging from family albums and social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to new destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photography’s open-ended and contingent nature and its ability to subvert and reconfigure conventional political identifications, this volume demonstrates that as much as photography looks to the past, it points to the future, acting in advance of social reality.
Theory of Photography
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Giulia Paoletti takes readers on a visual journey from the 1840s, when the oldest-surviving daguerreotype from West Africa was made, to the 1960s, when photography became the most popular medium as Senegal achieved its independence. She discusses some of Africa’s most celebrated modernists, such as Mama Casset, and also offers insights into lesser-known photographers like(...)
Portrait and place: Photography in Senegal 1860-1940
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Giulia Paoletti takes readers on a visual journey from the 1840s, when the oldest-surviving daguerreotype from West Africa was made, to the 1960s, when photography became the most popular medium as Senegal achieved its independence. She discusses some of Africa’s most celebrated modernists, such as Mama Casset, and also offers insights into lesser-known photographers like Oumar Ka and once-anonymous figures such as Macky Kane. Paoletti examines both professional and amateur artists in genres ranging from portraiture to landscape and across media such as glass painting and lithography.
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Rêve d'Egypte
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Photographies d'Harold Allen, François-Xavier Bouchart et de Mark Ruwedel sur le thème de l'architecture égyptisante.
Rêve d'Egypte
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Photographies d'Harold Allen, François-Xavier Bouchart et de Mark Ruwedel sur le thème de l'architecture égyptisante.
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March 1999, Paris
Theory of Photography
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Photographs made in Egypt by the American photographers Linda Connor, Lynn Davis, Tom van Eynde, and Richard Misrach.
The angle of repose : four American photographers in Egypt
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Photographs made in Egypt by the American photographers Linda Connor, Lynn Davis, Tom van Eynde, and Richard Misrach.
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January 1900, Chicago
Theory of Photography