Photography on Edge (OEI #102–103), 432 pages. Ed. Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas (J) Magnusson, 2024
Photography on Edge – 25 visual dossiers compiled and introduced by Geoffrey Batchen + ”Wanting more” – on and from the work of Australian artist Justine Varga + translations of a selection of Geoffrey Batchen’s essays into Swedish
”The published history of photography has long been motivated by a number of key principles: innovation and originality, authorship and nationality, chronology and medium specificity, technical excellence and aesthetic achievement. The folios [in OEI #102–103] offer an alternative way to regard this history. They comprise a series of repetitious fragments drawn more or less arbitrarily from across various photographic practices and genres. In every case, these folios present a photography on edge: tense, nervous, unsure of itself—at least when compared to the self-certainty we encounter in most histories of this medium.
A photography on edge is a photography that escapes the usual definitions. […] One thing is for sure: if they are to be included in future histories of photography, then we will need to set aside our prejudices and presumptions and learn to say what we see, and not just see what we already know how to say.”
Geoffrey Batchen in Photography on Edge
Innehåll
Challenging Photography
Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas (J) Magnusson 4
The Powers of Photography.
A conversation with Geoffrey Batchen
Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas (J) Magnusson 7
Photography on Edge
Geoffrey Batchen 20
With No Image 22
Paper Negatives 32
Killed 42
London’s Poor 52
Alberts 62
Ruins 72
Cliché verre 82
Live from the Moon 92
Taxonomies 102
Street Photographs 112
Verso 122
Daguerreotype Drawings 132
Contact Cyanotypes 142
Excursions 152
Migrant Mothers 162
Unnatural Colour 172
Art-Union 182
Memorials 192
Reading Women 202
Sitting on the Moon 212
Studios 222
Framing 232
Shadows 242
Mirroring 252
Hur man skjuter sitt självporträtt 262
Wanting More
Justine Varga 272
Developing the Darkroom.
A conversation with Justine Varga
Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas (J) Magnusson 291
Areola
Justine Varga 299
Justine Varga
Tachisme. A stain on photography 305
Staging Photography 313
Painting with Photography 318
Måleri med fotograf 321
Geoffrey Batchen
Nya begynnelser 335
Dubbel förflyttning.
Fotografi och spridning 341
Orörliga ting
Reflektioner över den
reproducerande dagerrotypin 355
Fotografin i masspridningens tidsålder
En brevväxling mellan
Joan Fontcuberta och
Geoffrey Batchen 364
Det vardagliga-lokala? 379
Varför vardaglig-lokal fotografi?
Gränser och möjligheter hos ett fält 382
Samla saker 386
Att ordna tingen 394
Dolda mödrar 400
Negativtänkande 406
Fotogeniska teckningar 412
Politiska ekologier. Fotografi i kris 418
Colophon 432