13 Jun 2023 - 14 Jun 2023
00:00 - 00:49

Travelling images, disrupted innovation: Emanuel Goldberg’s contribution to the modern history of photography

Estelle Blaschke am Workshop am Käte Hamburger Research Centre "Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation (global dis:connect)", Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

Nomadic Camera. Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities, Käte Hamburger Research Centre, LMU München.

Processes of migration and flight after 2015 and their depiction, perception and distribution through photography form the initial point of the workshop and subsequent publication Nomadic Camera. The research project seeks to investigate the technical, medial and aesthetic relationship of photography and contemporary migration, historical exile and flight as the pivotal discursive setting in which specific forms of mobility extending from the mid-nineteenth century to today have been negotiated.

The concept adapts the term ‘nomadic’ — a transitory form of existence — beyond static concepts of being and national boundaries (Demos 2017). ‘Nomadic’ refers to a form of mobility that establishes continuities and discontinuities with other terms, such as ‘travel’, ‘displacement’ and ‘exile’ (Kaplan 1996). At the same time, displacements are intrinsically related to experiences of connectivities and disconnectivities, including place-making and belonging, ruptures between life and work in the past and present, experiences of loss and challenges of beginnings.

Viewing photography as a formative part of this history of mobility and migration, we will examine the interconnection between the concepts of ‘nomadic’ and ‘camera’. From its introduction in the early-nineteenth century and throughout numerous technical developments and innovations, photography has been a mobile medium closely tied to equipment, social conditions and cultural framings. Setting out from this hypothesis, the workshop and publication “Nomadic Camera” will centre around the following questions: how are dislocations interconnected with the technical evolutions of the mobile medium of photography? In which way do camera technologies presuppose and affect the visual formulation of exile, migration and flight experiences? What modifications in aesthetics and style, methods and practices of photography do temporary mobility, geographical relocation and resettlement imply?

Weitere Informationen zu den Organisator*innen und zu dem Programm: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/10/17/cfp-nomadic-camera-photography-displacement-and-disconnectivities-13-15-jun-2023/


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