MANIFESTE! EINE ANDERE GESCHICHTE DER FOTOGRAFIE
The most radical statements about photography were made by the photographers themselves. The avant-gardes of the 20th century were accompanied by editorial coups de théâtre: programmatic books, magazines and radio broadcasts calling for the medium to be used to perceive the world differently and to transform it. The struggle over tasks, the "right" use of photography and its own aesthetic can be traced back to William Henry Fox Talbot and other pioneers. Today, it continues in photo blogs and Internet platforms. This book is a discursive journey through the history of photography. It's not the images that take center stage here, but the programmatic texts in which artists fight for their conception of the medium. This carefully designed publication features the original texts in their typographic rhetoric, complemented by English and German translations. They take the reader back to the vehemently provocative debate over the conception of this modern medium.
Published by Steidl, 2014
420 pages
21 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-765-7
The most radical statements about photography were made by the photographers themselves. The avant-gardes of the 20th century were accompanied by editorial coups de théâtre: programmatic books, magazines and radio broadcasts calling for the medium to be used to perceive the world differently and to transform it. The struggle over tasks, the "right" use of photography and its own aesthetic can be traced back to William Henry Fox Talbot and other pioneers. Today, it continues in photo blogs and Internet platforms. This book is a discursive journey through the history of photography. It's not the images that take center stage here, but the programmatic texts in which artists fight for their conception of the medium. This carefully designed publication features the original texts in their typographic rhetoric, complemented by English and German translations. They take the reader back to the vehemently provocative debate over the conception of this modern medium.
Published by Steidl, 2014
420 pages
21 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-765-7
The most radical statements about photography were made by the photographers themselves. The avant-gardes of the 20th century were accompanied by editorial coups de théâtre: programmatic books, magazines and radio broadcasts calling for the medium to be used to perceive the world differently and to transform it. The struggle over tasks, the "right" use of photography and its own aesthetic can be traced back to William Henry Fox Talbot and other pioneers. Today, it continues in photo blogs and Internet platforms. This book is a discursive journey through the history of photography. It's not the images that take center stage here, but the programmatic texts in which artists fight for their conception of the medium. This carefully designed publication features the original texts in their typographic rhetoric, complemented by English and German translations. They take the reader back to the vehemently provocative debate over the conception of this modern medium.
Published by Steidl, 2014
420 pages
21 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-765-7
