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Steffen Siegel
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Optimistic Berliner • Professor for the Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen • Chairman of the Essen Center for Photography
Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Anfang März dieses Jahres, da lag die jüngste Bundestagswahl erst Tage zurück, erzeugte ein Bild des Fotografen Guido Bergmann ordentlich Geräusch: Es zeigt vier Männer, einander im vertraulichen Gespräch zugewandt, und eine Frau, von der niemand am Tisch die geringste Notiz zu nehmen scheint. /1
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
At Folkwang University of the Arts, we are looking forward to welcoming the philosopher and media theorist Andrew Fisher for the next Folkwang Photo Talk: »One Thing After Another. The Broken Promises of Photographic Sequence«.

More information is here: foto.folkwang-uni.de/de/journal/n...
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Here is quite an offer for photo curators: The Rencontres d’Arles festival offers a curatorial research fellowship worth 20,000 euros. Applications are due on December 1st, 2025!

Have a look for more information: newsletter.rencontres-arles.com/nl3/l_tl1q9I...
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Lisette Model at the Albertina in Vienna.
Pioneering U.S. Street Photography, With Vienna in the Background
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Paris, maintenant.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Each language carries its own map of the world. What resists smooth transmission isn’t an obstacle to communication, but part of its meaning and texture. Automatic-translation technology, by design, filters out that surplus as noise.”

Ross Benjamin, eminent translator, on the value of languages.
The Costs of Instant Translation
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Paris, maintenant.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Paris, maintenant.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Die FAZ hat heute hervorragende Nachrichten: die Übernahme des Archivs von Timm Rautert für die Sammlung des Museum Folkwang in Essen … /1
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Zwei drängende Fragen des Achtjährigen zu seinem Vater beim Umkleiden im Schwimmbad:

— Hattest du viele Freunde als Kind?

— Kann man schwimmen wieder verlernen?
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
„Hat Schreiben Zukunft?“

Für dieses Bibliotheksexemplar wurde die Frage stempelnd beantwortet.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Nützlichstes Wissen für alle Augenmenschen.
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Heute in der Frankfurter Anthologie der @faznet.bsky.social: „Gorki zu Gast im GULag“ von Daniela Danz aus ihrem jüngst im @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social erschienenen Band „Portolan“. /1
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
D.C., now.
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It is ironic that, while we are attending this conference on concepts of work, the workers on the construction site directly in front of the building are producing a great deal of noise, as if they want to remind us what work is.

Btw.: My keynote will take place on Friday at 9am EST/2pm CET.
What's Work? Humanistic Approaches to Understanding Work - Department of German
A Symposium October 30-31, 2025 The Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur und Kultur der Arbeitswelt (Dortmund, Germany) and the German and English Departments of Georgetown University, D.C., in cooperat...
german.georgetown.edu
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate – the program of the 3rd Essen Symposium for Photography, featuring eleven speakers from seven countries, is online and registration is possible!
2026 – What Will Photography Be?
2026
fotozentrum-essen.de
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
October 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
How to turn the “specters of the past” into works of art.
How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Steffen Siegel
Wie kann Artistic Research zur Schärfung unseres historischen Blicks beitragen? Luise Schröders „Strömungen in Bewegung“ kompiliert Bilder der Arbeit nichtstaatlicher Frauengruppen in der späten DDR, @steffensiegel.bsky.social hat das Fotobuch besprochen:

www.soziopolis.de/phaenomenolo...
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM