European Photography

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European Photography

description Art magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Photography / contemporary art
language English German
First edition January 1, 1980
Frequency of publication half-yearly
editor Andreas Müller-Pohle
ISSN (print) 0172-7028

European Photography, based in Berlin, is an independent art magazine for international contemporary photography and new media. It was founded by the German artist Andreas Müller-Pohle and is published by him.

history

European Photography was first published in 1980 as a quarterly magazine in German and English. Each issue was dedicated to a key topic and also reported on international photo initiatives, exhibitions and book publications. In doing so, she relied on an international network of photographers, critics and curators. There was a restriction to European topics only in the first editions; By 1985 at the latest, according to Müller-Pohle, the title of the magazine "changed from literal to metaphorical: Europe means transnationalism, pluralism, diversity."

In addition to the presentation of current photographic positions, the magazine was significantly involved in the theoretical and programmatic debate about the medium of photography and has had a lasting impact on it. Important authors were, besides Andreas Müller-Pohle, Jean-Claude Lemagny , Derek Bennett, Boris Groys , Hubertus von Amelunxen and Vilém Flusser .

In 1982 the publishing house published the European Photo Galleries Guide , of which seven further updated and successively expanded editions followed under the title European Photography Guide by 2003 . The editors described the last, eighth edition, the joint work of over forty correspondents in 34 countries, as "the most comprehensive reference work on the photo and art scene in Europe that has ever been published."

The first theoretical book published in 1983 was the essay For a Philosophy of Photography by media and cultural philosopher Vilém Flusser , whom Andreas Müller-Pohle had met two years earlier at a symposium in Düsseldorf and who became a regular columnist for the magazine. The publisher brought out an English translation in 1984 under the title Towards a Philosophy of Photography . The collaboration with Flusser continued in a variety of ways until his death in 1992, in particular as a columnist for European Photography (“Reflections”) and as the author of the ten-volume Edition Flusser published by Müller-Pohle .

Also in 1983, European Photography took over Print Letter magazine , which had been founded in 1976 by Marco Misani in Zurich and which was aimed at galleries, museums and collectors. It was continued as an independent section in European Photography until 1989 and was last mentioned in the imprint in 1995.

In 1993, European Photography changed the publication frequency from quarterly to half-yearly, now with a new format (24 × 30 cm) and volume (84 pages).

In 2004 the publishing house moved from Göttingen to Berlin.

Selected editions

  • Series –Cycle –Sequence –Tableau (No. 1, 1980)
  • Contemporary Trends I: Visualism (No. 3, 1980)
  • Contemporary Trends II: Conceptual Photography (No. 4, 1980)
  • Contemporary Trends III: Documentary Photography (No. 6, 1981)
  • Immigrants (No. 8, 1981)
  • Edited by ... (No. 18, 1984)
  • Photography: Today⁄Tomorrow I (No. 21, 1985)
  • Photography: Today⁄Tomorrow II (No. 22, 1985)
  • Narrative in North America (No. 24, 1985)
  • Dutch Staged Photography (No. 31, 1987)
  • Ten Years Later (No. 40, 1989)
  • Deutschfoto (Ost) (No. 46, 1991)
  • Vilém Flusser Issue (No. 50, 1992)
  • Artist's Cookbook (No. 62, 1997)
  • goEurope: The Kaleidoscopic Eye (No. 68, 2000)
  • Photography and Water (No. 75, 2004)
  • Photography in China (No. 76, 2004)
  • Contemporary US Photography (No. 87, 2010)
  • Net Photography (No. 88, 2010)
  • Photography and Privacy (No. 90, 2011)
  • Retro Photography (No. 94, 2013)
  • The Photographic Figure (No. 97, 2015)
  • Urbanics - Urban Photography (No. 98, 2015)
  • Why Hong Kong? (No. 99, 2016)
  • Talking Photography - 100 Pictures that Tell a Story (No. 100, 2016)
  • Photo-Phenomenology: Points of View (No. 103, 2018)
  • Travel: The Outside Perspective (No. 104, 2018)
  • Fortieth Anniversary Issue (No. 105, 2019)
  • The Environmental Issue (No. 106, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b "Art and Publishing - European Photography's Anniversary. Hans-Michael Koetzle in conversation with Andreas Müller-Pohle ”. European Photography , No. 85/86, Spring / Summer 2009, p. 76.
  2. ↑ European Photography Guide 8 , ed. by Vladimir Birgus and Lea Gryze. Göttingen, European Photography, 2003.
  3. ↑ Klaus Sander, “Flusser Sources. An annotated bibliography by Vilém Flusser from 1960–2002 ”, URL: http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/1485097/d85714e287d539db39da46f0e5198b20.pdf.
  4. ↑ "Andreas Müller-Pohle. Interview". Flusser Studies , No. 10, 2010, URL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/179859/1/photography-beyond.pdf.
  5. ^ Edition Flusser. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Derek Bennett, "Interview with Marco Misani." European Photography , No. 13, 1983, p. 44.