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Photographische Portraits
Portraits von Photographen erwartet man zumeist als Bilder, die von ihnen selbst oder von anderen aufgenommen wurden. Bernd Stiegler nimmt sie in Gestalt von Essays in den Blick und lässt dabei schlaglichtartig ein Jahrhundert Photographiegeschichte Revue passieren. Vom Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart werden in zehn photographischen Portraits höchst unterschiedliche Erkundungen des Photographischen vorgestellt. Was kann und was soll die Photographie leisten? Was ist die Aufgabe der Photographie? Das sind die leitenden Fragen dieser Essays. Der Bogen reicht u.a. von der Kunstphotographie Alvin Langdon Coburns und der neusachlichen Photographie eines Albert Renger-Patzsch über die russischen Photographen Alexander Rodtschenko und Boris Mikhailov bis hin zur generativen und konkreten Photographie Gottfried Jägers und zeitgenössischen Photographen wie Michael Reisch oder Philipp Goldbach.
Traveling in Place
Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn’t travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required—the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. Organized into twenty-one “legs”—or short chapters—Traveling in Place begins with a consideration of Xavier de Maistre’s 1794 Voyage...
Randgänge Der Photographie
Preliminary Material -- Vorbemerkung -- Eine kleine Geschichte der Wolkenphotographie -- Eine kleine Geschichte der Typusphotographie -- Eine kleine Geschichte der abstrakten Photographie -- Orthophotographie -- Kleine Metaphysik der Photographie -- Walter Benjamin und Albert Renger-Patzsch -- Eine stereoskopische Reise nach Italien -- Elfenphotographien als historische Spuren -- Der merkwürdige Hang der Cyborgs zur Photographie -- Das Auge als photographischer Zeuge -- Eingebettete Bilder -- Können Bilder zerstören? -- Strategien des Verschwindens -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Nachweise.
Blumenberg’s Rhetoric
Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled ‘Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency, Relevance, even actualitas) of Rhetoric’ ("Anthropologische Annäherung an die Aktualität der Rhetorik"), first published in 1971. Following Blumenberg’s lead, the contributors consider and tackle their topics rhetorically—treating (inter alia) the variegated discourses of Phenomenology and Truthcraft, of Intellectual History and Anthropology, as well as the interplay of methods, from a plurality of viewpoints. The diachronically extensive, disciplinarily diverse essays of this publication—notably in the current lingua franca—will facilitate, and are to conduce to, further scholarship with respect to Blumenberg and the art of rhetoric. With contributions by Sonja Feger, Simon Godart, Joachim Küpper, DS Mayfield, Heinrich Niehues-Pröbsting, Daniel Rudy Hiller, Katrin Trüstedt, Alexander Waszynski, Friedrich Weber-Steinhaus, Nicola Zambon.
The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies
This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.
The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt
The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism continues to inspire scholars and practitioners on both the Left and the Right. Despite Schmitt's rabid anti-semitism and partisan legal practice in Nazi Germany, the appeal of his trenchant critiques of, among other things, aestheticism, representative democracy, and international law as well as of his theoretical justifications of dictatorship and rule by exception is undiminished. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities...
Claudio Hils: Home Front
For decades, Claudio Hils has shown in his photographs how the power of the state as well as war and terror have been reflected in mostly hidden spaces: His series Archive_Belfast (2004) documents the indirect traces of years of conflict in Northern Ireland. Industrie Zeit Raum (2005) is an attempt to use photographic images to capture the ambivalent approach to the past and present that companies from the defense industry have pursued in the Lake Constance region. With Red Land, Blue Land (2000) Claudio Hils provided the first series of unique images of a military training ground. Now he was granted access again to nine military bases in southern Germany over a period of five years. Home Front - Staging War showcases the places where emergency operations, counter-terrorism and warlike scenarios are simulated in analog and digital form to safeguard social order.
Arthur Conan Doyle and Photography
The first exploration of Arthur Conan Doyle, photography and spiritualism Offers the first complete history of Conan Doyle's relationship with photography Provides a cultural history of photography from 1880 to 1930 Covers a wide range of topics including amateur photography, 'shock' photos, Spiritism, fairy photos Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, his works are far more extensive than these familiar works. They include historical novels, political pamphlets, historical studies, science fiction novels and, last but not least, numerous publications on spiritualism. Photography plays a central role in his work and gives rise to a highly peculiar world of imagination. The photographs allow us to take a look at the world in around 1900 with all its oddities. For Conan Doyle's contemporaries, Sherlock Holmes was a real figure. To Conan Doyle, photographs of elves, the dead and ghosts testified to their existence. This book collects these images, along with the imaginarium that surrounds them.
