The category Artists' Strategies Photography & Archives addresses the increasing interest in the relation between art and science, coinciding with the advancement of art practice as research during an era when the boundaries of producing, presenting, distributing and collecting photography are shifting on a global scale. The contextualization of vernacular and art photography and genesis of images archives in contemporary artists' practices, in some cases in order to re-construct historical narratives, in others to construct new histories, are focal points of this category.
The selection includes contemporary case studies (ERIK KESSELS and JOACHIM SCHMID) and photographers' strategies regarding collective memory (SUSAN MEISELAS), fake and constructed archives (THE ATLAS GROUP), and collections of found photographs, in both books and periodical magazines, related to the cultural history of photography.
read more:
Nina Lager Vestberg, 'Archival Value. On photography, materiality and indexicality', Photographies Vol.I, No.1, March 2008, 49-55
Nina Lager Vestberg
Okwui Enzewor, Archive Fever. Uses of the document in contemporary art, New York/Göttingen 2008