In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography an...

By examining photography through geography and philosophy, this book makes evident that place is not the content of a definite representation. To do this, it breaks down the participatory elements of photography into six tropes: the photographer, the camera, the photograph, the image, the spectator, and the genre. Afterwards, through a rigorous theoretical analysis of each of these themes vis-à-vis the notion of place, it shows how they manifest inactive, contingent, unlocalizable, liminal, ...

Was verbirgt sich hinter Ideologien? Wie entstehen eigene Weltanschauungen, Grundeinstellungen und politische Theorien? Wie wirken sie auf andere? Inwieweit unterstu¿tzen sie Macht, Manipulation, Missbrauch, Ausgrenzung und Ausbeutung in den verschiedensten Gesellschaften?

Die in dieser Publikation zur 4. internationalen Triennale der ku¿nstlerischen Fotografie und verwandter Medien in Frankfurt/Rhein-Main vertretenen Ku¿nstler*innen wie Máté Bartha, Johanna Diehl, Yves Sambu, Ja'Tovia G...

World Travel 2021!

NOWHERE shows a world in which Instagrammability seems to rule; in which the new reality is dictated by the seductive image that may (later) be made of it. Architecture, design and urban landscape, directed by the mechanisms of global big business. The same antiseptic beauty, all over the world.

NOWHERE - Imagining The Global City collects photographer Frank van der Salm’s work of the past 25 years. The image of a consumer-oriented, imaginary metropolis rises from this book, designed by I...