image/con/text Book Launch and Live Talk

October 22, 2020

Online

22 October 2020, 7pm CET

image/con/text, edited by Karen Fromm, Sophia Greiff, Malte Radtki and Anna Stemmler, delves into the possibilities of the documentary and the development of visual narrations that subvert stereotyping and traditional viewing habits. The contributions in image/con/text focus specifically on the textuality and contextuality of documentary practices and on explorations of their bounds, in particular the relationships between art, documentation and journalism.

How can – or should – the effect of images be enhanced? What possibilities currently exist to subvert the stereotyping and traditional viewing habits of classical documentary photography and its narrative forms? Prof. Steffen Siegel, the artist Martha Rosler, the photographer Edmund Clark and the art historian Prof. Susanne von Falkenhausen will explore these and other questions.

For more information please visit [Image Matters] website. You can register here to join via Zoom or visit this link for a YouTube live stream.