Filling the Frame: Photography in Luxembourg from 1969 to 2000

Book published by Central European House of Centre European Photography - 1 (2016)

Filling the Frame looks at the history of photography in Luxembourg in the last decades of the 20th century, starting with an overview of cultural institutions developing in the bustling 1970s and 1980s ... [more ▼]

Filling the Frame looks at the history of photography in Luxembourg in the last decades of the 20th century, starting with an overview of cultural institutions developing in the bustling 1970s and 1980s, following for instance the creation and the evolution of the Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA), Galerie Nei Liicht (Dudelange) and Café Crème for contemporary art photography. The paper also gives insight into the work of the most important photographers and artists of the time. [less ▲]

Print Matters. Review of "Photography in Print" - PHRC Annual Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, 22-23 June 2015

in Rundbrief Fotografie (2015), 22(4), 66-70

The Bitter Years. The Farm Security Administration Photographs Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen.

Book published by Thames and Hudson (2012)

The "Bitter Years" was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images ... [more ▼]

The "Bitter Years" was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 193541 as part of Roosevelts New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. "The Bitter Years" celebrates some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century and, since no proper catalogue was produced at the time, provides a whole new insight into Steichen's impact on the history of documentary photography. [less ▲]

The Bitter Years - Les Années amères: La Grande Dépression vue par Edward Steichen au travers des photographies de la Farm Security Administration

Book published by Thames and Hudson (2012)