The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history.History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic ...

The book "Windows of Opportunity" presents a selection of photographic work by the artist and poet Quinten De Coene. Jumping from black and white to coloured work, the eclectic series seeks to find associations between images that have been taken at random moments.

Rather than presenting a series chronologically, De Coene seeks out a series based on contrasts, composition and colours. This process allows him to detach the photograph from its meaning of time and place, and reimagine the pictor...