Fotograf Magazine

This 2018 collection of texts by Manuel Arturo Abreu (who uses the pronoun they) ages like wine, particularly in these times of hyper-digitalization of everyday activities. Abreu, who is best known thanks to their poetic and artistic work, this time applied themselves to the field of the essay and critical theory (although they themselves would probably use the term “anti-theory”)…

Philipp Schorch’s research features a long-standing interest in the history of collections from Oceania found in Leipzig and Berlin, as well as exhibition formats in the context of the transformation of the political paradigm and the geographical context of the museum as an institution…

“I imagined the museum as if it were a body, a metabolism built on the cohabitation and interchange between different organs with symbiotic functions.” Clémentine Deliss, currently a curator at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, describes in this book her experiences gleaned from five years of directing the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt, which she attempted to transform into a progressive and interdisciplinary institution…

This book is the result of an eponymous exhibition project rea- lized at the turn of 2018 by the Bratislava based iniciative tranzit. sk, but it certainly stands its ground as a separate publication…

Filip Herza’s excellent and academically dutiful book represents a significant contribution to the discussion on the perception and reproduction of (ab)normality. It makes use of specific examples to demonstrate how the concept of the normal was created through popular entertainment culture and how it became part of the social establishment and its institutions…

How do our ideas about photography change if we also begin taking into consideration that which was not photographed? What if one part of photography consists of its very absence from particular situations? And how can we think about the camera before its discovery? These are some of the questions posed by theorist and political scientist Ariella Aïsha Azoulay in her book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, in which she entwines photography into networks of power relationships between nations and cultures…