writing and translation
Flusser uses the word “habit” [Gewohnheit] almost exclusively to mean something that is not conscious, something that in fact obscures or inhibits conscious reflection. He frequently referred to habits as “veils,” obscuring possibilities of...
Introducing a distinctly academic field to general readers is not easy. In his new book How to See the World, the eminent theorist of visual culture Nicholas Mirzoeff undertakes the task of introducing visual...
Reproduced here is one of many images made recently at Roaming Penzance (see www.roamingCIC.com for more about the organization). Given that the group meets just once a week, and then only for a...
Luxus — Luxury — is the title of Lambert Wiesing’s most recent book, published by Surkamp in August this year. I’ve translated the introduction, which proposes that that luxury is not a quality inherent...
“Prepared” by having been in a slow oven overnight, the loaf that appears in Charlie Sinclair’s fine image Burning Bread is perhaps nearly incredible but not quite. In fact it’s perfectly “straight” photography: the bread has become...
Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth are three very prominent contemporary art photographers. All three were students of Berndt and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, all work in series. They often–not always–work...