Photography Theory Shelter
Public Archive
Essays and Conversations
Talks & Events

Photography and the Self:Why Do Some Photos Make Us Feel Ashamed?

Writing an Open History of Photography:Power, Archives, and the Future

A Dialogue with Yuk Hui:Technology, Individuation, and the Limits of Philosophy

Reading Jeff Wall:How Does a Staged Photograph Become a Classic?

Reading Thomas Ruff:How Should We Understand "The Mind Map of Photography"?

Reading Salgado:The Aestheticization of Suffering and Its Dialectics

Photography After Artificial Intelligence:Reading the New Issue of Aperture

Matthias Pfalleron Metadata and the Materiality of Photography

Photography and Literature:How Can Photographs Tell Stories?

The Phenomenology of Everyday Photography

Exhibition Tour:"Another Avant-Garde: Photography 1970–2000"

In Conversation with Stephen Shore:Photography as an Experience of Meaning
From “Server Art”Contemporary Images: Paths and Possibilities
Papers and Writing

Gregory Crewdson, the Night Watcher

Book Introduction:Expedition: Century Avant-Garde and Global Contemporary

When Everything the AI Says Is "Correct":Five Questions on AI Ethics

The Ethics of Representation:The Aesthetics of Traces in Atrocity Photography

What Is Photography Today?A Political Ontology

The Cut, the Apparatus, Constructedness:On the Problem of the "tableau form" in Contemporary Photography

The Uncanny Landscape:On the Non-Intimacy of Landscape Photography

Electric Waves and Ghosts around 1900:"Electricity" and Warburg's "Image Science"

The Second Origin of the World Begins with Islands

Messenger, Archive and Memory:Photography as Hermes

From "Repetition" to "Typology":The Visual Internalization of Spatial Abstraction

How to Anthropologize Photography:A Glimpse at the Frontiers of the Western Anthropology of Photography

In Search of an "Other Avant-Garde":Photography Against Myth

The Cosmist Genealogy of Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema:Glass–Spheres, Mechanical Vitalism, and Interplanetary Revolution

Warburg as Photographer

The Mnemosyne Atlas:Warburg's Image Experiment — "Atlas," Motion Photography, and Montage

Family Photography:History, Art, and Anthropology

Photomontage, the Image Matrix, and the Mediatized Museum:The Exhibition Film und Foto (1929)











