I published this essay in Proceedings of the VII International Congress on Communication and Culture (VII coMcult), December 2021 (communication on September 16, 2021)
On July 22, 2021, I was invited to give a presentation on the History and Theory of Experimental Photography at the second edition of the remarkable Festival of Experimental Photography in Barcelona.
It is an update and a revision of my January 2020 presentation.
Vous trouverez ici une vidéo de plus d'une heure de ma présentation en anglais au Festival de Photographie Expérimentale à Barcelone le 18 janvier 2020.
You will find here a video of my 1-hour long presentation in English at the Experimental Photography Festival in Barcelona on January 18, 2020.
Introduction to « Jouer contre les Appareils »
Originally, almost all the historians and critics of this medium, and the philosophers who have written about it, have contented themselves with a very limited definition of photography, implying that it should necessarily represent the photographic object and be obtained exclusively by means of a negative/positive technique, yet…
Cet essai de Joan Fontcuberta accompagne le livre "The Pigeon Photographer" (Bolzano, Rorhof, 2017). L'extrait recopié ici provient des pages xxv et xxvi de l'essai.
"And that, surely, is the danger: that as the camera becomes smarter, we become stupider. It is not surprising, then, that strategies of resistance are oriented towards de-technologizing the apparatus, de-automating…
Flusser and Photographers, Photographers and Flusser
http://www.flusserstudies.net/sites/www.flusserstudies.net/files/media/attachments/marc-lenot-flusser-photographers-photographers-flusser.pdf
A summary :
The second part “On photography” contains three versions of a text by Marc Lenot dealing with
Flusser’s relation to photographers and the way photographers have reacted to his work originally
written in French, “Flusser et les photographes, les photographes et Flusser” [Flusser and
Photographers, Photographers and Flusser]. Lenot points out that…
PS: I will be present on November 9 (opening) and on November 11 & 16 (visits)
To visit the exhibition, you must register in advance by mail (rsvp@gesteparis.com) or by phone ((07 8128 4903)
To know more : website of GesteParis
Marc Lenot, Working against the Camera (On Experimental Photography)
MARC LENOT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
What is experimental photography? It’s a little-studied field and a poorly defined concept in the history of contemporary photography. The author presents the works of over a hundred experimental photographers, and in doing so relies in particular on the thesis of the Brazilian…
Shadow Catchers
Mes notes lors d'un colloque le 4 février 2011, au Victoria & Albert Museum, Londres, à l’occasion de l’exposition Shadow Catchers. Les photographes présents étaient Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, Adam Fuss et Floris Neusüss.
10h30 Martin Barnes, introduction
1st exhibition in a museum of this kind
Camera-less techniques (20 years or more), their main…
Silvio Wolf
Notes de mon entretien avec Silvio Wolf le 1er mai 2011, chez lui à Milan (enregistrement de 1h, 28m).
Your beginnings?
I took a photo of a mannequin with a Polaroid SX70, removed the object and rephotographed the photograph again and again. Some of what Benjamin was not right in my view. I was questioning how photography…