SITUATION #145

Conceptual and methodological resources from the interdisciplinary fields of media studies and visual and digital culture provide exciting approaches to contemporary photographic practices. Simultaneously they offer the opportunity to rethink the established theories and histories of photographic media by circumventing the impasse of a medium-specific approach. Frameworks like Jonathan Beller’s “programmable image”, Jodi Dean’s “images without viewers” or Hito Steyerl’s “poor image” – some of them featured on Fotomuseum’s blog Still Searching… –, can help us navigate through the networks and nodes of 21st century photography and its expansive technological, social, cultural, and political complexities.

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