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Department of Art History

Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography at the Institute of Art History

photo library
The photo library at the Institute of Art History

  

Theory and History of Photography at the Institute of Art History

 

The Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography (TGF) was established in 2006 – thanks to the initiative of the Dr. Carlo Fleischmann Foundation – in order to initiate an academic exchange between international scholars and junior researchers. The study programs at the Institute of Art History therefore have a special focus on the theory and history of photography, contributing fundamentally to the exploration of the historical and theoretical backgrounds and the historical relevance of the medium.

 

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A selection of photo-history-related event flyers

 

The courses focus on photography as a global phenomenon, as both a documentary and artistic medium. Our goal is to mediate and explore the history, the theoretical potential, and the historiographical relevance of analog and digital photography.

 

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Visiting Artist Thomas Flechtner and his students visit Tricolor Image Production

 

With research-oriented courses, lecture series, and international guest lecturers, this Center offers an intensive theoretical and practice-oriented examination of the medium of photography.

 

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Students experiment with analog photography

 

Furthermore, aspects of contemporary photographic practice – including experiments in the darkroom – as well as curatorial practice are explored. Every year, we invite a visiting artist or gallerist to thematize their own work in context of a seminar or exercise group.

We collaborate with museums and archives to offer a lively and innovative exchange, and to encourage networks between students and international scholars.

 

The activities at the Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography are made possible thanks to the generous support by the Dr. Carlo Fleischmann-Stiftung.

Weiterführende Informationen

Address

University of Zurich
Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography
Raemistrasse 73
CH-8006 Zurich (Postal Address)

Raemistrasse 59 / Office no. G21
CH-8001 Zurich (Office Address)
Tel. +41 44 634 58 95

 

Contact

Nadine Jirka, MA (stand-in for Stella Jungmann until September 2023)
E-Mail: nadine.jirka (at) uzh.ch

Visiting Artists

"Visiting Artist" program at the Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography at the Institute of Art History

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Informationsflyer CAS in Theory and History of Photography

New CAS Program

The first class of the CAS in Theory and History of Photography has started successfully!

Registration for the class of 2023/2024 is now open until the 30th of June 2023.

Fotogeschichte

Publication

Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe, edited by Sophie Junge and Erin Hyde Nolan, London / New York: Routledge, 2022.

Workshop Survey

Workshop

Workshop „Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe“, University Zurich, 13.-14. June 2022
funded by the Graduate Campus

FOTOGESCHICHTE
Den Blick erwidern. Fotografie und Kolonialismus, Sophie Junge, ed.

With contributions by Aimée Bessire, Nanina Guyer, Sophie Junge, Jadwiga Kamola, Halfan Hashim Magani, Erin Hyde Nolan, Liesbeth Ouwehand, Anne Peiter und Alexander Supartono.

The film „After Dadaism, Fluxism, Mailism comes Tourism“ has won in the category "swiss culture" at the Switzerland International Film Festival – SIFF.

Ute Christiane Hoefert created the film as part of her dissertation Rollenflexibilität und Demokratisierung in der Kunst. Der Konzeptkünstler, Mail Artist und Networker H. R. Fricker.

Nicole Krup Oest
Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles
Art & Photography vol. 2. Heidelberg, arthistoricum.net, 2021.

Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel talks about the publication The Colors of Photography

3 x Art and Photography

Die Politisierung des Gesichts. Über Selfie-Aktivismus
Wolfgang Ullrich
Wednesday, 28. April, 18.15–19.30, via ZOOM

 

Historical Insights into Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia
Alexander Supartono
Wednesday, 5. May, 18.15–19.30, via ZOOM

 

Rollenflexibilität und Demokratisierung in der Kunst. Der Konzeptkünstler, Mail Artist und Networker H. R. Fricker
Ute Christiane Hoefert
Wednesday, 26. May, 18.15–19.30, via ZOOM   

 

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Book Presentation "Colors of Photography"

The book “Colors of Photography” will be presented on Wednesday, March 31, 6-7.30 p.m. by Bettina Gockel (UZH) and Andrés Mario Zervigón (Professor of the History of Photography am Art History Department der Rutgers University). They have been invited by the Cologne initiative "Ende der Kunstgeschichte" (end of art history).

 

To register for the presentation, send an e-mail to: endederkunstgeschichte@web.de

Evening Lecture

Prof. Minoru Shimizu
Dōshisha University, Kyoto


"Fluch des Realismus"
12. November 2020, 6.15–7.45 p.m.

Online via ZOOM
 

GoP Bild 2020

International Lecture Series

Geography of Photography: Sweden - Photography and Photographers.

Spring Semester 2020, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

 

12 March 2020: Anna Dahlgren, "Rethinking photo history writing"


26 March 2020: Anna Tellgren, "Photography at Moderna Museet"


02 April 2020: Niclas Östlind, "Photography in Sweden: A battle between institutions, people and cities"


07 May 2020: Eva Dahlman, "State passivity - A threat to Sweden's photographic heritage"

 

Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel

"Schlaflos in Persien Landschaften der Seele: Leben, Schreiben, Fotografieren, Reisen der Annemarie Schwarzenbach"
2. Symposion of the Schlafzentrum Zürichsee, Sanatorium Kilchberg
30 January 2020

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Visiting Artist, Spring 2020

Cynthia Fleischmann
Dr. Carlo Fleischmann-Visiting Artist for Photography, Spring Semester 2020

 

Image: Cynthia Fleischmann, Human Harmony, 2019

 

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Publication

Bettina Gockel (ed.)
The Colors of Photography.​
Studies in Theory and History of Photography, vol. 10. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020.
 

Archive

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