1. The Shifting Relations of Still and Moving Photographic Images
The debates on the advent on digital photography in recent years have largely focused on the question whether the digital turn has essentially altered the nature of photography, and whether digital...
View Article2. A Look Back (Part I)
If one wants to gauge how the relation of still and moving images is shifting, it is useful to look back at the relation of film and photography in the analogue age. Both media relied on the same...
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Part 3 – The Opacity of Photography
One of my students recently declared she believed there was nothing to learn from Flusser’s writings on photography. For her, digital technology expanded the possibilities of photography well beyond...
View ArticlePart 5 – The Production of Documents
“In history everything begins with the gesture of setting aside, of putting together, of transforming certain classified objects into ‘documents.’ This new cultural distribution is the first task. In...
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1. The Current Scene of Photo Book and Art Book Publishing, As I See It
Welcome to everyone following this blog! I am not a theoretician, nor overly intellectual, nor an art historian, nor a regular writer – just a manic art book publisher who, after 25 years in the...
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2. What Works in the Photo Book World Today and What no Longer Works?
The photo book market faces the same challenges that most markets are facing these days. This includes overproduction (or “overpublishing,” as we call it in our world), a shrinking customer base in the...
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6. On Digital and Analogue Books and a Possible Scenario for the Future
(I will take the liberty here to describe my wildest fantasies). Lorenzo Rocha and Andreas Langen in their discussion on September 24 and 25 raised an interesting point that I want to reflect on. What...
View Article1. Last Night, During the Riot, I Ran Into a Cow
Without cows and their appetite there would be no photography as we know it, argues Nicole Shukin in Animal Capital.[1] The scientists at Kodak’s research laboratory had a problem at the beginning of...
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