Part 4 – Another Threshold
Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Emile Zola, from 1868, currently on view at the Royal Academy in London in the Manet: Portraying Life exhibition is usually interpreted as a testimony of the friendship...
View ArticlePart 5 – The Production of Documents
“In history everything begins with the gesture of setting aside, of putting together, of transforming certain classified objects into ‘documents.’ This new cultural distribution is the first task. In...
View ArticleI. A Moving Target
Using Still Searching as a shared space, what I hope to do over the next six weeks is both to stimulate a dialog and extend a project I’ve been working on lately, which involves taking a broad look at...
View ArticleI. Is Photography Over?
A few years ago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a conference about photography – for a photo conference, it had the odd title “Is Photography Over?.” Curators Sandra Phillips and Dominic...
View ArticleII. Seeing Machines
In my last blog post, I sketched out some of the ways that traditional photography theory and practice seems to be at a standstill. Contemporary revolutions in photography, from omnipresent digital...
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1. The Current Scene of Photo Book and Art Book Publishing, As I See It
Welcome to everyone following this blog! I am not a theoretician, nor overly intellectual, nor an art historian, nor a regular writer – just a manic art book publisher who, after 25 years in the...
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2. What Works in the Photo Book World Today and What no Longer Works?
The photo book market faces the same challenges that most markets are facing these days. This includes overproduction (or “overpublishing,” as we call it in our world), a shrinking customer base in the...
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6. On Digital and Analogue Books and a Possible Scenario for the Future
(I will take the liberty here to describe my wildest fantasies). Lorenzo Rocha and Andreas Langen in their discussion on September 24 and 25 raised an interesting point that I want to reflect on. What...
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2. What I Talk about When I Talk about Photography
If one thinks about photography in medium-specific terms, digitization actually hasn’t introduced any significant challenges to the essence of the photographic moment. Cameras and iPhones that produce...
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