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Shifting Places: Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs Alexander Streitberger
Lieven Gevaert Series vol. 12
Leuven University Press, summer 2011 More information
Photography Theory in Historical Perspective
Hilde Van Gelder & Helen Westgeest
Wiley-Blackwell, spring 2011 Order here
March-May 2012 Series of lectures
Heterogeneous objects. Intermedia and Photography after ModernismOrganized by the Lieven Gevaert Centre and the CERTA (Centre des recherches en théories des arts)Based on the idea that photography doesn’t rely on a coherent system of codes (like painting) but is almost always encountered as a fragmented, partial object (Victor Burgin), mainly three axes of reflection may be considered:
First, the role that photography plays since the 1960s concerning the overcoming of the modernist ideas of specificity and autonomy.
Second, the place of photography within practices and theories of intermediality.Third, the encounter between Intermedia and photography, yet the conception of photography as Intermedia, as an artistic strategy to reconsider the image’s relationship between self-reflection and reflection of socio-historical conditions
With her photographs Lidwien van de Ven (°1963, NL) focuses on issues of politics and religion while she postulates questions concerning the expressiveness of journalistic images. Her photos do not reveal their different layers of meaning at once, for they are poised upon the border between the visible and invisible, where the documentary, poetic and disturbing are brought together in a careful balance. (exhibition : Lidwien van de Ven: Freedom; Netwerk, Aalst).
Fotomuseum Winterthur has launched a new blog as a continually growing and highly interactive Internet discourse on the medium of photography that features a multitude of participants; it explores photography’s role as the seminal visual medium of our time. This discourse will be conducted by theorists, critics, educators, enthusiasts, users and also photographers. Still Searching can be accessed at blog.fotomuseum.chand is open for your comments.
The blog was launched on January 15, 2012 with German photo historian and theorist Bernd Stiegler as our first blogger. Till February 29, he will present various thoughts on Photographic Realism. He is to be followed by Aveek Sen, (March 1 to April 14), Walead Beshty (April 15 to May 31) and Hilde Van Gelder (June 1 to July 14, 2012).
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