European Photography 90 on Privacy, presenting 17 international artists with their views on private matters among them Jana Romanova, Chad States, Dennis Rito, Rania Matar, Kurt Caviezel, Margo Ovcharenko, and Hester Scheurwater. Introductory text by Andreas Müller-Pohle, "Photography, the Enemy of Privacy." Also in this issue: Photography and Fetishism. Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945. Blogger's guest column by Jörg M. Colberg. Survey of International Photo Awards. 80 pages, copy price EUR 18.00
Andreas Müller-Pohle: Araki at Work. A hitherto unpublished video, made in 1996 with a small digital camera, portraying Nobuyoshi Araki during a photo shooting at a Tokyo love Hotel. Published by Photo Edition Berlin, this video is now available in an edition of 99+IX on a USB card in an aluminium box. Introductory price EUR 99 plus shipping costs. View trailer of the 23-minute video here. Order your copy here
New photo triennial, RAY 2012: For 200 days, the German Rhine-Main region announces to host the presentation and discussion of outstanding positions in contemporary photography and video. How does current image art reflect new social developments and paradoxes? And what does the past mean to the present day of images? More in RAY's first press release or at www.ray2012.de.
Net Photography: The New Photography on the Internet. Introductory essay by Andreas Müller-Pohle. Order the full print issue of European Photography 88 here
European Photography's 30th Anniversary Issue presents the most outstanding new work by 30 international photographers who were presented in earlier issues of European Photography: Akinbode Akinbiyi, Peter Bialobrzeski, Diana Blok, Dirk Braeckman, Mona Breede, Daniele Buetti, Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Florschuetz, Gladys, Jim Goldberg, John Gossage, John Hilliard, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Carl de Keyzer, Mark Klett, Miao Xiaochun, Peter Neusser, Erwin Olaf, Roger Palmer, Max Pam, Martin Parr, Bernard Plossu, Ernestine Ruben, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Heidi Specker, Frank Thiel, Norbert Wiesneth, Erwin Wurm, Martin Zeller. In a second portfolio section, new, cutting-edge photography by seven young and mid-career artists is featured. Also in this issue: an essay on "30 Years" by Boris von Brauchitsch and a conversation between Hans-Michael Koetzle and Andreas Müller-Pohle on the "secrets" of magazine publishing, current trends and how to combine being an artist and a publisher. Finally, “It is flourishing . . .” 7 Questions, 119 Answers is a survey among international critics, curators and photographers of their personal views . . . "Is there something you collect? What?" is one of the questions asked to Fred Baldwin, Chairman of FotoFest, and his answer is "Mostly bills, and an occasional photograph trade, and by accident a million books, usually collected as I am going to the airport." 112 pages, texts in German and English
Photo Bubbles: Is the art photography market facing a crisis similar to that of the financial markets? There are numerous parallels. Manfred Heiting, a Los Angeles-based collector and editor, and Michael Maria Müller, photographer and owner of Artificial Image digital studio in Berlin, talk about a highly-charged taboo on the photo market. Published in European Photography 84 (Fall/Winter 2008). Download PDF (62 KB) here
European Photography is introducing BOOKMARKS, a new colorful advertising format for photographers, galleries, museums, festivals, associations, publishers, printing studios, or any photographic service, starting with our 30-Anniversary issue due out in November. You can reserve your own color field, 97 x 30 mm each, with a headline (e.g. your name) and your web address line, each up to 30 characters (including empty spaces). Plus, your entry will be displayed for six months on the new Bookmarks page here on Equivalence.com, with a direct link to you. This will cost you no more than EUR 69 including VAT. Just e-mail us your text, pre-payment by Visa or Mastercard required. There are only 15 color fields available per page, so this offer is on a first-order-first-served basis.
ITS International Talent Support: A great initiative (and grand festival) in its 8th year, located in Trieste, Italy, but truly global-minded. Its all about discovering and bringing to the public outstanding new talent in photography and fashion/accessories. This year, Saana Wang from Helsinki became the Winner in Photography with "Hujialou," a series on people posing in their Beijing flats shortly before they get to be demolished.
International Photography Festivals in European Photography 84. Free download here (pdf, 50 KB)
Photobook Award 2007/2008: Andreas Müller-Pohle. The Danube River Project. With an essay by Ivaylo Ditchev. Berlin: Peperoni Books, January 2008. ISBN 3-9809677-5-1. 176 pages, 72 reproductions. Hardcover, 30 x 24 cm, EUR 42.00. English/German
Only a few copies are still available of European Photography's Berlin issue (#81, Summer 2007). These can be ordered at EUR 30.00 plus shipping costs.
International Photography Festivals Index [45 entries] online
European Photography 19802010, the complete set of 88 original issues totalling 5,706 pages, is available in a limited number of copies. This collector's item can be ordered at EUR 2,020.00 plus shipping cost. Details [here]
A Serbian edition of Vilém Flusser's "Towards a Philosophy of Photography" has just been published by the Belgrade Cultural Center and Edicija Foto Artget. It is the 23rd foreign edition of this book which has now been translated into 18 languages
Eye-Mind the artist's interface to European Photography in Berlin. Seminars, mini workshops, and individual in-depth portfolio reviews with Andreas Müller-Pohle. More at www.eye-mind.com
Andreas Müller-Pohle: codeZone. Digital Works 19962005. Catalog Aura Gallery, Shanghai. 24 pp., with an essay by Gu Zheng. Download here (pdf, 1.5 MB)
European Photography Guide 8, the completely revised current edition. With more than 3,000 entries from 34 countries, the Guide offers vital information on Galleries and Museums, Festivals and Fairs, Magazines, Book Publishers, Bookshops, Auctions, Critics and Journalists, Schools and Workshops, Associations, Grants and Awards, and New Media. Edited by Vladimir Birgus and Lea Gryze. 304 pages, EUR 28.00
Vilém Flusser: Vom Zweifel. Als Band I der Edition Flusser erschien im Verlag European Photography Vilém Flussers Traktat "Vom Zweifel", ein Frühwerk aus brasilianischer Zeit, das als philosophische Basis seiner späteren Foto- und Medientheorie gelten kann: "Der Zweifel ist ein vielbedeutender Geisteszustand. Er kann das Ende eines Glaubens sein, er kann aber zu einem neuen Glaubens führen. Der Zweifel beendet jede Gewißheit. Im extremen Fall kann man ihn als ‚Skepsis’ ansehen, als eine Art umgekehrten Glauben. In kleiner Dosis regt der Zweifel das Denken an, in übermäßig großer Dosis paralysiert er es. Als intellektuelle Erfahrung ist der Zweifel eines der reinen Vergnügen, als moralische Erfahrung ist er eine Qual. Zusammen mit der Neugier ist der Zweifel die Wiege der Forschung, folglich die Wiege eines jeden systematischen Denkens. In kleinen Tropfen tötet der Zweifel die Neugier und beendet jedes Wissen." Vilém Flusser: Vom Zweifel. Übersetzung aus dem Portugiesischen von Edith Flusser. 64 Seiten, broschiert EUR 22,00
European Photography Cover Edition: European Photography has launched an edition of Iris Giclée prints of its spectacular cover images
Vilém Flussers "Die Schrift" und "Vampyroteuthis infernalis" jetzt als Neuauflagen in der Edition Flusser: Leseprobe hier
Felix Philipp Ingold über Vilém Flussers "Briefe an Alex Bloch"
(Edition Flusser, Band X), nachzulesen in der Basler Zeitung vom 27. Dezember 2001
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Vilém Flusser: Standpunkte. Texte zur Fotografie (Edition Flusser Band VIII). Flussers Essay "Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie", 1983 erschienen, löste im deutschen Sprachraum eine lebhafte Debatte über das Kulturphänomen Fotografie aus, an der sich der Autor auf mannigfache Weise beteiligte. In der Folge entstanden zahlreiche Exposés, Skizzen und Werkanalysen sowie vertiefende und weiterführende Essays und Vorträge, die der vorliegende Band nahezu vollständig dokumentiert. Er zeigt Flussers zentrales Interesse am Medium Fotografie seit Ende der 70er Jahre und bestätigt ihn als einen der maßgebenden Kritiker und Philosophen der Fotografie dieses Jahrhunderts. "Ich bin ganz sicher, daß es die Aufgabe des denkenden Menschen ist, Standpunkte zu akkumulieren, eine Mehrzahl von Standpunkten zu haben. Ich interessiere mich für die Fotografie, weil die fotografische Kamera der erste Apparat ist, der gebaut wurde, um von Standpunkt zu Standpunkt zu springen. Nicht gleiten! Ich bin nicht begeistert vom Film. Springen!" (Vilém Flusser im Gespräch mit Klaus Nüchtern am 6.10.1990). Edition Flusser, Band VIII. 256 Seiten, 12 Abbildungen, Fadenheftung.Broschiert EUR 26,00, gebunden EUR 36,00