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The most radical statements about photography have come from photographers themselves. The avant-garde movements of the 20th century were accompanied by editorial masterstrokes: programmatic books, journals, and radio programs calling for a different way of perceiving the world through the medium and for its transformation. The struggle over the medium’s purpose, its “proper” use, and its distinct aesthetic dates back to William Henry Fox Talbot and other pioneers. Today, it continues in photography blogs and online platforms. This book is intended as a discursive journey through the history of photography. It is not the images that take center stage here, but the programmatic texts in which artists fight for their conception of the medium. In this carefully designed publication, one can thus see the original texts in their typographic rhetoric, supplemented by translations into English and German. They transport the reader back to the vehement and provocative debate over the conception of this medium of modernity.
Published by Steidl, 2014
420 pages
21 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-765-7
The most radical statements about photography have come from photographers themselves. The avant-garde movements of the 20th century were accompanied by editorial masterstrokes: programmatic books, journals, and radio programs calling for a different way of perceiving the world through the medium and for its transformation. The struggle over the medium’s purpose, its “proper” use, and its distinct aesthetic dates back to William Henry Fox Talbot and other pioneers. Today, it continues in photography blogs and online platforms. This book is intended as a discursive journey through the history of photography. It is not the images that take center stage here, but the programmatic texts in which artists fight for their conception of the medium. In this carefully designed publication, one can thus see the original texts in their typographic rhetoric, supplemented by translations into English and German. They transport the reader back to the vehement and provocative debate over the conception of this medium of modernity.
Published by Steidl, 2014
420 pages
21 x 28.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86930-765-7
