Tag Archives: photo books

Review: Steffen Siegel: Fotogeschichte aus dem Geist des Fotobuchs. Göttingen: Wallstein 2019 (Ästhetik des Buches. 11).

Guest post by Ute Schneider, Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media / Book Studies, JGU Mainz In the series “Ästhetik des Buches” (Wallstein Verlag), an attractive little volume has been published in which the photography historian Steffen Siegel, Essen, reconstructs the history of photography from the history of the photo book. It is based […]

Call for applications: 2018 DGPh History of Photography Research Award

  Since 1978, the History and Archives section of the German Photographic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie, DGPh) recognises scientific research in the history and theory of photography. The DGPh History of Photography Research Award 2016 will be open for all elements of research into photography’s many aspects. Besides aspects of traditional history and theory […]

Conference: PAGES, VIEWS. Current Research on History and Trends of PHOTO/BOOK/ALBUM, Vienna, 10 June 2016

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (German Photographic Association, DGPh), an open forum for all people interested in photography, will be holding a bilingual (German-English) conference on photo books (historical perspectives and contemporary perspectives) in Vienna in June, in co-operation with European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh). The international roster of the conference includes speakers […]