Although the term “contemporary history” is actually a contradiction, it refers mostly to the period of history that we lived in and that still directly affects us and our present. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent events leading to the collapse of the Eastern bloc are still a subject of speculation and re-interpretations that often lack a broader context…
Information and knowledge are intimately connected to power. It is too easy to say that “knowledge is power”, though, because this idiom misses an important point…
Like photography, the distinction between leisure time and work is
a modern achievement. The need to categorize and hierarchize time
according to its content and productivity goes back to the times when
the need to take photos was born…
The imaging of the body and corporeality cannot be normalized. The body itself is the carrier of visual communication, information and mediation, an impulse for comparison and confrontation, and a means of shocking provocation in the reflection of life styles, fates and transformations…
Over the course of the twentieth century, architecture and photography have formed an inseparable pair, tied together in an ambivalent bond in which forces of both attraction and repulsion are at odds…
There is a peculiar, close friendship between photography and architecture. It seems as though alongside the capturing of the human face, photography was born for the recording of architecture. Ever since the emergence of the medium, we find the most numerous genres to be portraiture and the sense of place…