Elizabeth Otto, Steffen Siegel (Hg.): Archival Absences. Toward an Incomplete History of Photography. Themenheft der Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 88.3, Oktober 2025
»Archival Absences: Towards an Incomplete History of Photography« heißt die im Oktober 2025 erschienene Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, herausgegeben von Elizabeth Otto und Steffen Siegel. Sie präsentiert acht Beiträge, begleitet von einer umfangreichen Einleitung.
Beiträge
Elizabeth Otto, Steffen Siegel: Archival Absences: Towards an Incomplete History of Photography
Steffen Siegel: Absent Pictures, Present Images: How Time Reshapes the Photographic Archive
Francesca Strobino: Experimental Metallic Surfaces and Absent Images: On the Materiality of William Henry Fox Talbot’s Photomechanical Practice
Malte Radtki: Postal Profusion and Archival Scarcity: Jacob Vitta’s Photographs of Mining in the Gold Coast Colony as Prints and Postcards
Elizabeth Otto: Atrocities Absent from the Archive: Bauhaus Photographer Fritz Heinze, from Anti-Nazi to Conformist
Max Böhner: Absent Essentials: Queer Visualizations of Outlawed Nudity and Sex in Mid-Twentieth-Century Physique Magazines and Photographs
Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, Juanita Solano Roa: Absence and Repair: Encounters between the Photographic Archive of the United Fruit Company and Banana Craze’s Database of Contemporary Art of the Americas
Madison Brown: The Garbage Bag Archive: Disposal and Disposability in Family Photo Collections
Tracy Stuber: Present or Absent? Reframing Photographic Discovery and Interpretation with Computer Vision
Buchbesprechungen:
Magdalena Becker: Kartieren und Kleben
Werner Telesko: In Praise of Process
Lyrene Kühn-Botma: In Praise of Process