Research Project

since 2011

„Die Fotografie als angewandte Wissenschaft. Über die epistemische Rolle von fotografischen Handbüchern (1839–1883)" (DFG-Projekt WO 1768/1-1)   In Relation to the Research Project: Building of a Digital Data Base of Photographic Manuals (Fotografische Handbücher) in Cooperation with the USB (University of Cologne, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek)

Actual Research

 

• Edition of the Photographic writings of WHF Talbot (will be published in the edition series photogramme (Ed. Bernd Stiegler and Steffen Siegel) by Wilhelm Fink; autumn 2019/spring 2020)
   
• Beispiel, Modellbild und Medium des Wissens. Eine Geschichte der Fotografie des 19. Jahrhunderts (Specimen, Model Image and Medium of Knowledge. A History of 19th Century Photography; Monograph; autumn 2020)
   
• Recording. History of Photography as a Mean of Measurement (Photogrammetry)
   
• Re-Appropriation. Photographic Practices after 1970
   
• Continuity and New Beginning. Looking at Photographs in Germany, 1945–1970