Fotografiegeschichte der Abstraktion - IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP!

Background information

"With this 'foundational work on the pictorial and discursive history of photographic abstraction' (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, DGPh), Kathrin Schönegg touches the foundations of the photographic and sheds new light on photography's involvement in aesthetic discourse.

Content

The text volume 'Fotografiegeschichte der Abstraktion' traverses the history of photography after abstraction: from the medium's experimental beginnings in the 1830s, through (pseudo)scientific, applied, and artistic contexts, to the digitalization of today. It counters the appropriation of the phenomenon by art theory with a history of abstraction that takes into account photographic materiality and mediality beyond and on this side of likeness. " (Publisher's text, © Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2019)

About German historian of photography, Kathrin Schönegg

(Photo)books by as well as with participation by Kathrin Schönegg