Описание

The Lives and Loves of Images is the catalogue of the 2020 Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg.

Photography has come to symbolize the extremes of contemporary society. It is deeply personal, and yet thoroughly public. Freeing at times, yet also limited and limiting. Expressive, yet culturally dominant. Pleasurable, but worrying. There is affection for photography, and it is a source of great fascination but we are, or ought to be, suspicious of its power and manipulations. If we are dependent upon the photographic image, as so many have claimed over the last century, this dependence gives us mixed feelings. If we were to teach young children about photography – which we really should – we would teach them to appreciate it and enjoy it but also to be aware of its manipulations, and distractions.

Across three cities, six museums and an extensive programme of talks, discussions and workshops, The Lives and Loves of Images explores how these tensions shape our understanding and appreciation of photography. A series of exhibitions, each thematically distinct, considers the hold, good and bad, which photographs have over us, viewers and image makers alike.

This catalogue is slightly different to the exhibitions. Here is where you can find a little more information about each of the artists, their projects, and the thoughts that motivated the various exhibitions. But of course, there is no substitute for looking, no substitute for confronting those moments when we are uncertain what to think of an image. In the end, and for art at least, uncertainty is a source of hope.

David Campany, Curator

Artists include:

Dennis Adams, Claudia Angelmaier, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, David Claerbout, Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger, Jeff Cowen, Julia Curtin, Tim Davis, John Divola, Stéphane Duroy, Walker Evans, Camille Fallet, Joan Fontcuberta, Pablo Genovés, George Georgiou, Hein Gorny, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Darren Harvey-Regan, Aaron Hegert, Sohrab Hura, David Jiménez, Lisa Kereszi, Christoph Klauke, Steffi Klenz, Kensuke Koike, Justine Kurland, Sherrie Levine, Mark Lewis, Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler, Michael Mandiberg, Josh Murfitt, James Nares, Antonio Pérez Río, Max Pinckers & Dries Depoorter, Max Pinckers & Sam Weerdmeester, Jessica Potter, Patrick Pound, Peter Puklus, Timm Rautert, Sebastian Riemer, RaMell Ross, Thomas Ruff, Mark Ruwedel, Anastasia Samoylova, Martina Sauter, Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes, Bryan Schutmaat, Stephen Shore, Eva Stenram, John Stezaker, Daniel Stier, Clare Strand, Batia Suter, Nick Waplington, Christopher Williams, Vanessa Winship, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Thomas Wunsch, Ewa Monika Zebrowski.

Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Language: English

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