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PhotoResearcher

The PhotoResearcher, founded in 1990, is the journal of the Society and is dedicated to the research of the history of photography. Since 2010 it is published twice a year. The contributing authors are internationally recognised experts. All previous issues of Photoresearcher (No 1- 14) can be downloaded from this website. The number of archived materials will continually increase.

Current issue

PhotoResearcher No. 19 / April 2013

Contents:

Peter Weiermair: Reflections on Materiality in Photographic Production – Looking Back at a Discourse; Hubertus von Amelunxen: Im | materialities; Andreas Spiegl: Anatal and Digilogue Photography: Different but Indistinguishable; Danielle Leenaerts: The Modes of Inscription and Appearance of the Still Image in Beat Streuli's Work: Reflections on the Photographic Media; Klaus Honnef: Illusory Images in the Brain – Fleeting Images in the Net – Captured Images on Paper; Caroline Fuchs: Anticipation and Reality. A Re-Evaluation of Autochrome Projection; Amélie Van Liefferinge: Between Art, Science and Education. The Tradition of Slide Shows at the Belgian
Association of Photography (1883–1933); Thomas Freiler: The Vampire and Marilyn – Some Thoughts
on a Photographic Concept of Being; Moritz Neumüller and Andreas Reichinger: From Stereoscopy to Tactile Photography; Monika Schwärzler: The Beast – On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Centre in Geneva; Carl Aigner: Photo Digitality in the Area of Conflict. Between the Material and Immaterial. A Review as a Preview; Jeanna Nikolov-Ramírez
Pictorial Spreading - On Immaterial Forms of Collecting and Sharing Images; Ilka Becker: Some Remarks on Material Agency after the Digital Turn and the Photographic Metaphor of the Living Digital

Phototresearcher No 19 Editorial

PhotoResearcher No. 18 / October 2012

Contents:

Joke de Wolf: Exchanging Views on an Empty Street. On Urban Settings and the Traffic in Charles Marville’s Photographs; Harald R. Stühlinger: Photographed Buildings on Buildings. When Architectural Photography Conquered Architecture; Martino Stierli: Photomontage in/as Spatial Representation; Matthias Noell: Bioscopic and Kinematic Books. Studies on the Visualisation of Motion and Time in the Architectural Book ca. 1900–1935; Rolf Sachsse: Artists’ Books on Architecture. A Fast Growing and Endangered Species; Nicole E. Stöcklmayr: Constructions and Reconstructions. The Architectural Image between Rendering and Photography

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PhotoResearcher No 17 / April 2012

Contents:

Nadja Lenz: The Hidden Image: Latency in Photography and Cryptography in the 19th Century; Carmen Pérez González: Selene’s Visible Face: Lunar Cartography and 19th Century Astronomical Photography; Katharina Steidl: Leaf Prints. Early Cameraless Photography and Botany; Ulla Fischer-Westhauser: Cyanotype Micrographs: Scientific Interests or Visual Pleasure; Heidemarie Halbritter and Michael Hesse: Aesthetics of the Invisible. Pollen Grains as Art Forms of Nature; Kelley Wilder: Making Science Visible: The 1937 PSA Photography Exhibition; Jennifer Tucker: Philip O. Gravelle and the Origins of Macrophotography in American Scientific Consulting and Corporate Advertising, 1920-1935; Heinz-Michael Jostmeier and Christoph Schaden: Tricycles in the Desert Sand. Observations on the Phenomenon of Computer Generated Images; Voyager between the Art Worlds – Allan Porter in Interview with Anna Auer.

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PhotoResearcher No 16 / October 2011

Contents:

Martin Parr in interview with Uwe Schögl: The Last Resort – and a Great Day in Vienna; Christopher Webster van Tonder: Erich Retzlaff. Volksfotograf; Ulrich Pohlmann: "We’re naked and on a first-name basis“. Naturism and the Return to the Roots; Patricia Gozalbez Cantó: Lolita – Observations on an Iconography of Femininity in German and Spanish Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s; Frauke Kreutler: Trude Fleischmann and Claire Bauroff. The Naked Female Body as a Staged Nude; Gerard Hastings: Ballet Dancers and Bathers: An Introduction to Keith Vaughan’s Photography; Christina Natlacen: Shadow Pictures and Light Imprints. Depictions of the Body in the Work of Peter Kubelka and Floris Neusüss; Andrés Garay Albújar and Moritz Neumüller: The Andean People in the Work of Martin Chambi; Katherine Hoffman: The Human Image and Visual Music. Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson in the American South.

PhotoResearcher No 15/ April 2011

Contents:

Carmen Gonzalez, Yokoyama Matsusaburo (1838-1884): A pioneering experimental Japanese photographer; Luke Gartlan, „A Complete Craze“: Isabella Bird Bishop in East Asia; Sebastian Dobson, Colonel Charles du Pin: A French Photographer in Japan; Tani Akiyoshi and Peter Pantzer, Wilhelm Burger’s Photographs of Japan: New Attributions of his Glass Negative Collection in the Austrian National Library; Banu Kaygusuz, Reading Japan through the Photograph Albums of Abdulhamid II; Régine Thiriez (F): William Pryor Floyd’s Views of Hong Kong; Allan D. Coleman, “China: Insights”- Mainstream Documentary in the People’s Republic.

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PhotoResearcher No 14 October 2010

Contents:

Ekaterina Markarian, Traditions and Modernity: The Photographic Legacy of Mark Markarian in Bulgaria; Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, Photography in Romania in the First Half of the 20th Century; John Toohey, A Turkish Photographer in Germany, 1929 to 1930; Danielle Leenaerts, Istanbul: Memories and the City — the Role and Place of Photography in Orhan Pamuk‘s Memoir; Eglė Deltuvaitė, Lithuanian Photography in the 20th and 21st Centuries; Susanne Holschbach, Framing (on) Flickr: Modes of Channelling an Indisciplinary Reservoir of Images; Colin Ford, Hungarian Photography 1914 to 1989: An Introduction.

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PhotoResearcher No 13 March 2010

Contents:

Stéphanie Roy Bharath, The Sachés: a family of photographers working in India during the 19th century; Corien J.M. Achour-Vuurman, Arranging early photographs of Persepolis in Dutch photo-collections by the ideas of David Hockney; Bahattin Öztuncay, CARANZA: From Constantinople to the Société Française de Photographie; Mohammad Reza Tahmasbpour, Creative Photography in the Early Years of Photography in Iran; Stéphanie Roy Bharath, The Alkazi Collection of Photography: Visual Heritage from South Asia; Herta Wolf, “Collections of all Kinds will be Formed” The Photograph as an Image and Medium for Taking Inventory.

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PhotoResearcher No 12 May 2009

The current issue of PhotoResearcher, the scientific platform of the ESHPh for almost 20 years, comes up with new forms.

Content:

Christoph Schaden, Wall. Photo.Book; A.D.Coleman, Return of the Suppressed: Pictorialism’s Revenge; Suzanne Paquet, Transcontinental Lines: Migrating Images and the Production of Space; Rolf.H.Krauss, The Cubist Photographer, George Morrow, Alvin Langdon Coburn and the Great English Vortex; Nicole Graf, The ETH-Bibliothek Image Archive, A Collection of Scientific and Historic Images; Pep Benlloch, Pedro Vicente, Turn the Page: Present and Future of Photography Magazines.

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Photoresearcher No 11 April 2008

Contents:

Trevor George Sewell, The Autochrome Process; Anselm Wagner, Integrating Photography into History of Art. Remarks on the life and scientific estate of Heinrich Schwarz; Ian Walker, Blossfeldt and Surrealism; Nikolaus Schad, Christian Schad: ‘My Pictures are in no way meant as illustration’; Inge Nevole, Christina Natlacen, Maria Schindelegger, In the laboratory of light: The photogram in contemporary art and its interrelationship with 1920s avant-garde practice; Kerstin Arcadius, The artist as photographer, picturing the countryside;

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Photoresearcher No 10 September 2007

Contents:

Alistair Crawford, Wolf Suschitzky, photographer: Fled Hitler, Loved Lenin, Shot Michael Caine; Ulla Fischer-Westhauser, Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, The First Daguerreotypist in Yucatán; Carmen Pérez González, Defining a model of representation for 19th century Iranian Portrait Photography; Katherine Hoffman, Sarah Choate Sears and the Road to Modernism; Petra Trnková, Purified Czech history of photography.

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Photoresearcher No 10 September 2007

Photoresearcher No 9 December 2006

Contents:

A.D.Coleman, Permitting the Forbidden: Photography as License; Hans Christian Adam, Edward S. Curtis and his perception of the North American Indians; Alistair Crawford, Everyone ought to be careful in a city like this; William Bishop, William Bishop and the publication INSCAPE; Gabriele Hofer; Lucca Chmel. Photographic Interpretations of Austrian Architecture in the 1950s and 1960s; Zoltán Fejér, European Ramblings from Vérmezö Park to Mars; Trevor George Sewell, Beyond the Conventions of Architectural Photography; Penelope Petsini, Reconstructing Memory,Reconstructing the Self: Periklis Alkidis, Family Portraits 1987-94.

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Photoresearcher No 9 December 2006

Photoresearcher No 8 September 2005

Contents:

Alistair Crawford, That Decisive Moment: Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004; Monika Schwaerzler, August Sander – A Psychoanalytic Reading; Anna Auer, The unknown photographic work of Ferdinand Schmutzer (1870-1928); A.D. Coleman, Two Jacks and a Jill: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand at Century’s End; Mark B.Pohlad, Dodging History: Marcel Duchamp’s Photographic Manipulations; Ben Baruch hotogBlich, The Epistemology of the Praphic Image, Vladimir Birgus, Czech and German Avant-Garde Photography.

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Photoresearcher No 8 September 2005

Photoresearcher No 7 September 2004

Contents:

Editorial; David Faddy, The Image of Politics; Andy Golding and Joost Hunningher, Obituary of David Faddy; Colin Osman
The Beato Brothers, with reference to some of their lesser known images; Colin Ford, Colin Osman – a significant and colourful figure; Karl Steinorth, The pioneers of fotoform; Hans Christian Adam; Professor Karl Steinorth 1931–2000; How to became a member of the European Society for the History of Photography

Photoresearcher No7

Photoresearcher No 7 September 2004

Photoresearcher No 6 (1994/95/96) March 1997

Contents:

Colin Osman, Robert Murray of Edinburgh (1822-1893): The Discovery of Neglected Calotypes of Egypt; Mauro Rombi, Sardinia 1995, Edouard Delessert 1828-1898; Alistair Crawford, Wales 1996, Staging the Mind in Photographic Portraiture; Önder Erkarslan, Turkey 1996, A Retorspective View of Photography in Turkey; Philippe Maurice, Canada 1994, Photography: Scientific Fiction in the Later Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century; Philippe Maurice, Canada 1994, Tintypes, Snippets of a History; R. Derek Wood, England 1994, Daguerre and his Diorama in the 1830’s: Some Financial Announcements; Peter James, Coming into Light: Birmingham Central Library’s Photographic Collections; Susan Baar, Norway 1996, Expedition Photography in Polar Areas.

Book & Catalogue Reviews
Robert Greetham, Wales, 1996, Hugh Cortazzi and Terry Bennet Japan. Cought in Time: Great Photographic Archives; Robert Greetham, Wales, 1996, Fouad Debbas Beirut Our Memory. An Illustrated Tour in the Old City from 1880 to 1930; Robert Greetham, Wales, 1996, Peter James, Tessa Sidey, John Taylor Sunlight and Shadow. The Photographs of Emma Barton 1872-1938; Joanna Hounsome, Wales 1996, Carol Shloss In Visible Light. Photography and the American Writer 1840-1940; Joanna Hounsome, Wales, 1996, Alan Davies, Peter Banbury, The Mechnical Eye in Australia. Photography 1841-1900.

Exhibition Reviews
Richard Sadler, England, 1995, Rebuilding the Homefront. Photographs by Bill Brandt in Birmingham 1939-1943

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Photoresearcher No 6 (1994/95/96) March 1997

Photoresearcher No 5 December 1993

Contents:

Margaret Harker Farrand, President’s Report; ESHPh Symposium, Vilanova, Spain, June 1993, Oslo, Norway, Symposium August 1994; Janet Dewan, Captain Biggs and Doctor Pigou, photographers to the Bombay Government 1855-1858; Peter Tooming, Estonian Photography: Between the East and West; In Brief.

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Photoresearcher No 5 December 1993

Photoresearcher No 4 September 1992

Contents:

Margaret Harker Farrand, Composite Photographs: Intentions and Achievements; Peter Süptitz, Hermann Krone – A Pioneer of Photography in Germany; Sue Atkinson, The Formative Years; Roger Kockaerts, The Imperfect Image: Cumbria Conference `92 outline; Michael Gray, Competition and Collaboration; Book Reviews; President’s Report.

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Photoresearcher No 4 September 1992

Photoresearcher No 3 December 1991

Contents:

Margaret Harker Farrand, President’s Report – Toulouse Symposium; Julie K.Brown, Photography as Occupation in late Nineteenth Century Colonial Australia; Serge Negre, Arthur Batut – Photographie 1846-1918; Patricia Macdonald, Aerial Perspectives; Bernardo Riego, L’espagne face au Défi Technologique et Culturel de la Photographie 1839-1840; News & Distinctions; Book Reviews.

Photoresearcher No3

Photoresearcher No 3 December 1991

Photoresearcher No 2 June 1991

Contents:

Ingeborg Th.Leijerzapf, Mirrored Reflections in Photography; Peter E. Palmquist, Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century California (USA) - An Overview; In Memoriam - Eric Hosking; Notes; Anthony Hamber, Henry Cole and the Institutionalization of Photography, Book Reviews.

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Photoresearcher No 2 June 1991

Photoresearcher No 1 October 1990

Contents:

President’s Report (Margaret Harker Farrand); Sidney F. Ray, Historical Research into Photographic Technology and Imaging Sciences; M.Hallett, The Manchester-Liverpool Circle; Philip Stokes, Photography as a Cultural Nexus: Edward Cahen, His Photographs, Family and Friends; Ross Murray, Documentary Photography and Social Change; Sidney F.Ray, The Applied Photography of Charles Piazzi Smyth; Antony Hamber, Computers and the History of Photography; Book Reviews.

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Photoresearcher No 1 October 1990