Elizabeth Otto, Steffen Siegel (eds.)
Archival Absences: Towards an Incomplete History of Photography
Special issue of Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
Vol. 88, issue 3, fall 2025
Table of content:
Elizabeth Otto, Steffen Siegel: Archival Absences: Towards an Incomplete History of Photography ● Steffen Siegel: Absent Pictures, Present Images: How Time Reshapes the Photographic Archive ● Francesca Strobino: Experimental Metallic Surfaces and Absent Images: On the Materiality of William Henry Fox Talbot’s Photomechanical Practice ● Malte Radtki: Postal Profusion and Archival Scarcity: Jacob Vitta’s Photographs of Mining in the Gold Coast Colony as Prints and Postcards ● Elizabeth Otto: Atrocities Absent from the Archive: Bauhaus Photographer Fritz Heinze, from Anti-Nazi to Conformist ● Max Böhner: Absent Essentials: Queer Visualizations of Outlawed Nudity and Sex in Mid-Twentieth-Century Physique Magazines and Photographs ● Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, Juanita Solano Roa: Absence and Repair: Encounters between the Photographic Archive of the United Fruit Company and Banana Craze’s Database of Contemporary Art of the Americas ● Madison Brown: The Garbage Bag Archive: Disposal and Disposability in Family Photo Collections ● Tracy Stuber: Present or Absent? Reframing Photographic Discovery and Interpretation with Computer Vision
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