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dESIGN12+ #4: Dr. Anja Schürmann

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The trail in the snow.
Standstill and movement in the contemporary photo book

Abstract:

Speed in photography, writes Michel Frizot, is always a "coupling of two speeds: that of the object and that of the shutter, which determines the duration of the light entering the camera." If we want to talk about movement in photography, a number of other values that simulate movement are added to these self-evident facts: A photographic snow cover, to give a thematic example, suspends time by equalizing environmental information such as colors, shapes and light fall. At the same time, we know that water has changed its aggregate state in the case of snow and has frozen, i.e. come to a standstill. While sign-theoretical and thus denotative readings have primarily immobilized the photograph and its reception, my lecture would like to examine the movement of the photographic image in the book (Gerry Johansson & Lars Tunbjörk) and exemplify how this interaction between photographer and photographed, pages and images, depicted and viewed people comes about 'as movement'.

Bio:

Dr. Anja Schürmann is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI). Since studying Art History, Early and Modern German Studies, Musicology and Psychology at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Konstanz, she has been writing essays for exhibition catalogs, art magazines and artist books, mainly in the fields of photography and contemporary art. In 2016, she was honored as Talent Art Critic in the C/O Talents series by c/o Berlin. Her post-doc project entitled "Bound Images: Visual Narration in the Photobook" deals with forms of narration in photographic artist books. In 2021, she will co-edit a special issue of the journal Fotogeschichte entitled "Weiterblättern! New perspectives on photobook research" was published. The most recent publication explores the possibility of visual lists: "Et cetera photobooks? Reflections on Conceptual Documentary Photography as visual enumeration," in: Anne Rüggemeier et al. (eds.), The List as Epistemic Practice, Palgrave/Macmillan: London, 275-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76970-3_13(Opens in a new tab) 

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Aula FB2, Room 135

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