Tag Archives: Switzerland

Fascinated by outsiders and subcultures, photographer and documentary filmmaker, Danny Lyon, developed a more subjective and partisan form of reportage.

SITUATIONS/Placeholder from #68 to #79 now at Fotomuseum Winterthur.

The latest cluster, launched on 28 May 2016, is Proletariats (SITUATION #39 to 40). This cluster looks at issues of labour from a historical perspective.

A lively installation that features works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikō Hosoe, Kazuo Kitai, Daidō Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Shōmei Tōmatsu and many more.

The new cluster traces productive moments of (in)stability in the history and contemporary experience of photography/film.

With over 500 record covers, Total Records shows the innovative and artistic interaction between vinyl and photography.

From the vanishing of a person or a social reality to the fading of an image.

As the lifespan of data storage formats decreases, the Internet provides unprecedented modes of production and distribution…

Photographs often seem familiar and understandable, a visual common sense intimately related to our daily lives.

We no longer have a feeling for real distances anymore. Our western world is plugged in 24 hours a day…

As every citizen with a smartphone, laptop or tablet knows, photography is becoming increasingly ‘distributed’. Driven by the vast replicative power of digital algorithms, photographs now move with tremendous speed across a wide variety of devices and platforms. The distinction between the still and the moving image is becoming

Paul Strand White Fence, Port Kent, New York, 1916 Gelatin-silver print, 24.5 × 32.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of...

In the mid 1990s the German artist Peter Piller worked at a Hamburg press agency while studying art. His job was to collect clippings and monitor where and how the paid ads of regional advertising clients and companies actually appeared in print.

With her highly original and at times provocative practice, Viviane Sassen is one of Europe’s most exciting photographers. In and Out of Fashion is the first full retrospective of her fashion work.