Prof. Dr. Rebecca Hackemann: The Cameraless Photograph: Contemporary Practice and Theory

May 3rd, 2022, 19:30, Kunstraum Elsa/Zoom

This talk is held at the ›Kunstraum Elsa‹ and will be streamed via Zoom as well.

In this lecture I will not only survey the work and methods of over 15 photographers who are emerging and only somewhat well known. It also intends to address the meaning and subtext of such practices in the individual works of the artists. Lens-less or camera-less photography is often read as the ultimate rejection of the retinal image plane (and the camera’s ability to represent), questioning it as a language, emerging from 1970s conceptual work. Is ditching the camera and lens a return to old ways or a radical new move against screens and the digital way of practicing?

Prof. Dr. Rebecca Hackemann is from Kansas, USA and works at Kansas State University Department of Art, USA

Prof. Dr. Hackemann is Associate Professor of Photography at Kansas State University, a large Research 1 land grant university near Kansas City. Her work consists of conceptual public art, socially engaged practice, stereo 3-D photography and alternative process photography. She is also a writer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Klompching Gallery in New York (2022) and Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig (2021). She was a Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program fellow in New York, has received grants from NYC DOT and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York. Her work is represented in the collection of Light Work Syracuse, the MOMA artist book collection, Yaddo and many more. She has participated in prestigious artist residencies such as Light Work, the Banff Center, Headlands Center for the Arts and Foundation Valparaiso and Yaddo.