European Photography, based in Berlin, is an independent art magazine for international contemporary photography and new media.[1] It was founded in 1980 and is published by the German artist Andreas Müller-Pohle.
European Photography was founded as a quarterly magazine in German and English in 1980.[2][3][4] Each issue focused on one particular theme and also reported on international photo initiatives, exhibitions, and book publications.[5] It drew on an international network of photographers, critics, and curators. Only the first few issues were restricted to European themes; according to editor/publisher Müller-Pohle, by 1985 at the latest;
"the magazine title had changed [...] from the literal to the metaphorical: Europe meaning transnationalism, pluralism, diversity."[6]
In addition to presenting current photographic positions,[7] the magazine has played a decisive role in the theoretical and programmatic debate on the medium of photography and has had a lasting influence on this.[2][8]
In 1993, European Photography changed its publication frequency from quarterly to bi-annual,[9] with a new format (24 x 30 cm) and page count (84).
In 2004, the publishing house moved from Göttingen to Berlin.
European Photography contributed significantly to the theoretical debate about photography and new media and published programmatic texts early on, for example on Visualism,[10] which as Paula Gortazar explains
"...was not only the title of the article but also the name of the theory it presented. Having emerged on the western side of the Iron Curtain, the theory of Visualism challenged Cold War ideologies...and, coupled with his own practice, was the result of a vindication of authenticity, a response to an overdose of imagery charged with capitalist ideology."[7]
Rather than accepting a system of given codes and providing a mere inventory of the world, Visualism embraces all possibilities of representation to achieve a genuine search of the visible world for pure form under layers of imposed connotations and artificiality.[7]
Quite early, in a 1985 article by Joachim Schmid,[11] and thereafter, the magazine confronted the implications of emerging digital photography and the developments in diversifying forms of new media art.[12][13][14][15]
While initially focusing on young European photography, the journal soon turned to non-European developments as well, for example separately covering Australian[16] and North American photography in two editions in 1985 (issues 23 and 24).[17] In the years that followed, the magazine regularly featured photographers and artists from Asia, Latin America and the African continent, including, for example, thematic editions on contemporary photography in Japan or China (issues 61 and 76).[18]
In addition to the photographers and their work represented, and alongside Andreas Müller-Pohle, and Vilém Flusser,[19][20] important authors have included:
The magazine draws on an international editorial network; Vladimír Birgus (Prague), A.D. Coleman (New York), Anthony Georgieff (Sofia), Gu Zheng (Shanghai)
Johanna Hofleitner (Vienna), Ian Jeffrey (London), Gottfried Jäger (Bielefeld), Hans-Michael Koetzle, (Munich), Vaclav Macek (Bratislava), Chris Miller
(Oxford), David Glenn Rinehart (San Francisco), Johan Swinnen (Antwerp), Christoph Tannert (Berlin)
In addition to the periodical, European Photography has produced book-form publications.
In 1982, the European Photo Galleries Guide was released, of which seven further updated and successively expanded editions under the title European Photography Guide followed through 2003.[56][57] The editors described the eighth and final edition – the collaborative effort of over forty correspondents in thirty-four countries – as "the most comprehensive reference work on the photography-and-art scene in Europe ever published."[58]
In 1983, European Photography's first theoretical book publication was the essay Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie by the media and cultural philosopher Vilém Flusser, whom Andreas Müller-Pohle had met two years earlier at a symposium in Düsseldorf and who subsequently became a regular columnist for the magazine.[59][60] An English translation was published in 1984 under the title Towards a Philosophy of Photography. Flusser's collaboration with European Photography continued on various levels until his death in 1991, most importantly as a columnist for the magazine ("Reflections") and as author of the ten-volume Edition Flusser published by Müller-Pohle.[61]
Also in 1983, European Photography took over the magazine Print Letter,[62] which had been founded in 1976 by Marco Misani in Zurich and was aimed at galleries, museums, and collectors.[63] It was continued in European Photography until 1989 as a separate section of the magazine, last identified in the imprint in 1995.
European Photography is held in a number of university libraries internationally,[64][65] and is recommended reading for photography and visual culture courses.[66][67] Articles in the journal are frequently cited in theses,[68] conference proceedings,[69] journal articles,[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][7] bibliographies,[77][78][13] and books.[79][80]
^“30 Years of European Photography.” Interview by Peter Kunitzky. Eikon, Vienna, no. 69, 2010
^The History of European Photography. (2010). Austria: Central European House of Photography.
^"Art and Publishing – European Photography's Anniversary. Hans-Michael Koetzle in Conversation with Andreas Müller-Pohle," in: European Photography, nos. 85/86, spring/summer 2009, p.76.
^Boetker-Smith, D., Grainger, K., Heron, F., Pontin, M., & Quay Arts Centre (Newport, Isle of Wight, England). (2006). Unravelling photography: Daniel Boetker-Smith, Karen Grainger, Fergus Heron, Matthew Pontin. Newport: Quay Arts
^Phantom Paradise. Hans Georg Berger - Hervé Guibert. Serindia, Chicago / Edition Salzgerber, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-1-932476-93-4
^Revelations. The Thomas Herrendorf Collection, Edition Braus 2019, ISBN 978-3-86228-205-0
^Insight. Three journeys into the innermost world of Shiite Islam. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86828-818-6
^The leader's shadow. The photographer Walter Frentz between avant-garde and Obersalzberg. Edition Braus, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86228-158-9
^Ho, O., & Para/Site yi shu kong jian. (2004). Mapping identities: The art and curating of Oscar Ho = Shen fen he zai : He Qingji de ce zhan gong zuo ji yi shu. Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space Ltd.
^Koetzle, Hans-Michael, 1953-, (editor.) & Hock, author of added text., Sabine & Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler (Photography firm : Frankfurt am Main, Germany) & Ernst Leitz Museum (Wetzlar, Germany), (exhibition sponsor.) (2019). Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler : light and shadow : photographs from 1920 to 1950. Kehrer ; Wetzlar : Ernst Leitz Museum, Heidelberg
^Prüst, M., Vaudrey, C., Dilg, B., Koenigsberg, A., & Neale, J. (2015). 3 minutes pour comprendre les 50 techniques et styles majeurs de la photographie. Paris: Le Courrier du livre.
^Schaden, M., Lezmi, F., PhotoBookMuseum., Schaden.com Foundation., & Krummer und Herman. (2014). The PhotoBookMuseum catalogue box. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler
^Rencontres africaines de la photographie, In Silva, B., In Byrd, A. I., Mali., & Institut français (Bamako, Mali),. (2015). Rencontres de Bamako: Biennale africaine de la photographie, 10ième édition.
^Swinnen, J. (2003). European Guide 8, International guide'European Photography'. In European Guide 8, International guide 'European Photography'. European Photography.
^Rameder, A. (2016). Azadeh Akhlaghi's photograph series" By an eye Witness" in the context of staged photography in Tehran/Iran (Doctoral dissertation, uniwien).
^ALEXANDER, R. C., & SMITH, D. K. ABBATE, Janet (1999) Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Massachusetts, und London: MIT Press. ABRAMSON, Norman (1970) The ALOHA System–Another Alternative for Computer Communications. In: Proceedings of the Joint Spring Computer Conference, No. 36, S. 281-285. Culture, 6(2), 80-94.
^Albers, P., & Nowak, M. (1999). Lomography: Snapshot photography in the age of digital simulation. History of photography, 23(1), 101-104.
^Pagotto, M. B. (2018). The" Ecology of Information" in the Work of Brazilian Artist Rosângela Rennó. International Journal of the Image, 9(3).
^Von Amelunxen, H. (2001). Denis Roche. European photography: art magazine, 22(70), 14-23.
^Pagotto, M. B. (2010). Opacity and Re-Enchantment: Photographic Strategies in the Work of Rosângela Rennó (Doctoral dissertation, MA thesis, University of New South Wales)
^Papavasileiou, I. G. (2020). The Post Readymade Photographed Object. International Journal of the Image, 11(2).
^Amerika, M., Cubitt, S., Goto, J., Müller-Pohle, A., Najjar, M., Osthoff, S., ... & Zielinski, S. (2010). Photography and Beyond: On Vilém Flusser's Towards a Philosophy of Photography. Flusser Studies, 10, 1-24
^Richter, G., Derrida, J., Fort, J. (2010). Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography. United States: Stanford University Press.
^Filmmuseum, S. Appelt, Christian (1998):» Film und Computer. Alchemie und Silikon «. In: Film & Computer. Herausgegeben von Hilmar Hofmann, Walter Schobert und Barbara Geis, Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum, S. 32-59. Appelt, Christian (2005):» Es bewegt sich! Techniken der Filmanimati.