Steffen Siegel

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Steffen Siegel (* 1976 ) is a German art and media scholar, critic and curator.

Life

Steffen Siegel studied art and media studies , German literature and philosophy in Konstanz as well as Études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles in Lyon . He was born in 2008 with the work Tabula. Figures of Order around 1600 at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2005 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and from 2009 to 2015 junior professor for the aesthetics of knowledge at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

From 2011 to 2012 he was a research fellow at the International Morphomata College at the University of Cologne and from 2019 to 2020 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

For his photo-historical source collection Neues Licht. Daguerre, Talbot and the publication of photography in 1839 , he was awarded the Research Prize for Photography History of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) and the Special Prize for Humanities International. The US edition received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award in 2018.

Since 2015 he has been teaching as a professor for the theory and history of photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen , where he has been heading the scientific master’s degree in Photography Studies and Research since 2016 .

Publications

Monographs

Source editions

  • New light. Daguerre, Talbot and the publication of photography in 1839 , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-7705-5736-3 .
    • First exposures. Writings from the Beginning of Photography , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2017. ISBN 978-1-60606-524-2 .

Editions (selection)

  • Related images. The questions of image science , Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2007; 2nd, revised edition 2008, (as co-editor). ISBN 978-3-8659-9034-1 .
  • Visuelle Modelle , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2008, (as co-editor). ISBN 978-3-7705-4632-9 .
  • Excessive images. Visual Aesthetics of Transgression , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2009, (as co-editor). ISBN 978-3-7705-4801-9 .
  • The cartographer's workshop. Materials and practices of visual world creation , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2011, (as co-editor). ISBN 978-3-7705-5187-3 .
  • Photographic experiments . Special Issue of Photo History 31 (2011), No. 122. ISSN 0720-5260.
  • The confident photography. Pictorial history of photo theory since the 1960s . Special issue of photo history 33 (2013), No. 129 ISSN 0720-5260.
  • Psychology and photography . Special issue of Photo History 36 (2016), Issue 140, (as co-editor). ISSN 0720-5260.
  • Playing the photographer . Special issue of Photo Researcher no. 27 (2017), (as a co-publisher). ISSN 0958-2606.
  • Writing about photography . Special issue of Photo History 37 (2017), Issue 145, (as co-editor). ISSN 0720-5260.
  • Wolfgang Schulz and the photo scene around 1980 , Spector Books, Leipzig 2019, (as co-editor). ISBN 978-3-95905-282-5 .
  • Photography and design . Special issue of Photo History 39 (2019), Issue 152, (as co-editor). ISSN 0720-5260.

Series of publications

  • Laboratory reports (as co-editor), VDG, Weimar, since 2015.

Exhibitions

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the International Morphomata College of the University of Cologne
  2. ↑ site of CasVa the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
  3. ^ Website of the "Photography Studies and Research" course at the Folkwang University of the Arts
  4. ^ Directory of the laboratory reports series on the VDG Weimar publisher's website
  5. ^ Website of the DZ BANK art collection
  6. ^ Website of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
  7. ^ Directory of the winners of the DGPh Research Prize for the History of Photography
  8. ↑ Laudation from the German Book Trade Association
personal data
SURNAME Siegel, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976