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Fotogeschichte, no. 168, 2023

Albert RengerPatzsch sieht zurück und betrachtet sich selbst Er sammelt nicht mehr die Landschaft... more Albert RengerPatzsch sieht zurück und betrachtet sich selbst Er sammelt nicht mehr die Landschaft, verlassen jetzt und entfremdet, zum Bilde. Er überstrahlt sie mit dem Feuer, das Subjektivität entzündet, indem sie ausbrechend auf die Wände des Werkes aufprallt, treu der Idee ihrer Dynamik.

Art History 46, no. 1, 2023

The career of photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch began in the early 1920s in the storerooms of Ge... more The career of photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch began in the early 1920s in the storerooms of Germany's ethnographic museums, and ended in 1966 with the publication of his last photobook, Gestein (Rock). His reputation as a leading exponent of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) developed in tandem with heated debates over sculptural facsimiles and contemporary art in the historical museum in the late Weimar Republic. These debates gave expression to the ‘non-simultaneity of the simultaneous’ (Ungleichzeitigkeit des Gleichzeitigen), a central concept for the crisis of historicism in the post-inflation years. In an age of mass reproduction, could ‘things’ still reliably embody and convey the past into present? This question took on renewed urgency for Renger at the end of his life – as, indeed, it did for many writers of his generation, who, if they outlived Nazi terror, genocide, and war, looked back on the historical valence of objecthood as unfinished business.

Future Bodies From a Recent Past: Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s (Munich: Museum Brandhorst; Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022), 2022

Walker Evans and Albert Renger-Patzsch

kritische berichte. Zeitschrift für Kunst-und Kulturwissenschaften, 2021

October 168 (2019): 148–165.

Published in: Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, eds. Glenn Phillips, Philipp Kaiser, Doris C... more Published in: Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, eds. Glenn Phillips, Philipp Kaiser, Doris Chon, and Pietro Rigolo (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2018), 183–200.

Getty Research Journal, no. 9, S1 (2017): 149–82.

Oxford Art Journal 40.1 (2017): 27–48

Published in: Friedrich Kiesler: Lebenswelten / Life Visions. Architektur–Kunst–Design / Architec... more Published in: Friedrich Kiesler: Lebenswelten / Life Visions. Architektur–Kunst–Design / Architecture–Art–Design, eds. Christophh Thun-Hohenstein, Dieter Bogner, Maria Lind, and Bärbel Vischer (Vienna: MAK, 2012), 164–69.

New Objectivity: Modern German art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, eds. Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann (Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015), 228–41.

Schwitters in Britain, eds. Emma Chambers and Karin Orchard, 42–51 (London: Tate, 2013)

Books by Megan Luke

Instant Presence. Representing Art in Photography, 2017

Together with the digitisation of collections and the redefining of analogue archives, there has ... more Together with the digitisation of collections and the redefining of analogue archives, there has emerged a broad spectrum of new topics dealing with the fascinating subject matter of photography of art works. This results in unprecedented attention being paid to the various kinds of photographs housed in the photo libraries of art history institutions, the estates of art historians, artists and photographers, archives, museums or galleries, and reproduced in periodicals and publications on art history.
Published in honor of Josef Sudek (1896–1976), a Czech photographer otherwise famous for his photographs of the misty window of his studio, the present book brings together experts on the photography of art works from leading European and American institutions as well as curators and art historians who specialise in Sudek and his work. The breadth of scope of this photographer, for whom making reproductions of fine art was a source of livelihood, helps to open a number of important questions which explore various problems related to the photographic representation of art.

Hana Buddeus, Vojtěch Lahoda, Katarína Mašterová (eds.)

Texts: Hana Buddeus, Costanza Caraffa, Antonín Dufek, Sarah Hamill, Amy Hughes, Geraldine A. Johnson, Mariana Kubištová, Vojtěch Lahoda, Megan R. Luke, Katarína Mašterová, Jan Mlčoch, Hélène Pinet, Rolf Sachsse

First edition, in English, 319 pp., colour illustrations, name index, Praha 2017

Book Reviews by Megan Luke

The Art Bulletin 97, n. 2 (June 2015): 231–34

Exhibition Reviews by Megan Luke