New blog by Fotomuseum Winterthur
Still Searching – An Online Discourse on Photography
Fotomuseum Winterthur has launched a new English blog on the theory and history of photography. Still Searching – An Online Discourse on Photography aims to be a continually growing and developing Internet discourse on the medium of photography that features a multitude of participants. It is conceived as an online debate on forms of photographic production, techniques, applications, distribution strategies, contexts, theoretical foundations, ontology and perspectives on the medium. It explores photography’s role as a seminal visual medium of our time. Still Searching is moderated by the Fotomuseum Winterthur and can be accessed via its website: www.fotomuseum.ch or directly on blog.fotomuseum.ch
Still Searching is aimed at anyone interested in photography and visual theory. This includes, but is not limited to, academics and professionals. It is supposed to be highly interactive—everybody is invited to join the debate and comment on the issues raised in the blog.
Still Searching was launched on January 15, 2012 by the German photo historian and theorist Bernd Stiegler writing about various aspects of photographic realism. The Indian writer Aveek Sen, (March 1 to April 14), US artist Walead Beshty (April 15 to May 31), and Belgian photo theorist Hilde Van Gelder (June 1 to July 14, 2012) will follow until the summer break. Geoffrey Batchen, the photo historian and theorist currently working in New Zealand, will initiate the autumn season (September 15 to October 31).
Aveek Sen, the Indian author, curator and teacher, who is our current blogger (till April 14), wants to open up the discussion on photography towards a realm of the promiscuous—a word he steals from the lexicon of sexuality to use in relation to the creative process. By the ‘creative process,’ he is not simply referring to the making and showing of photographs, but to the entire web of relationships that connects looking, thinking, reading, listening, remembering and everyday life. Moving the discussion beyond the Barthes/Benjamin/Sontag trinity that dominates writing on photography, he wants to use other works of art – literature, above all, and music – as starting points for reflection and debate, blurring the conventional distinction between theory and practice.
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