Portfolio Reviews

 

Estelle Blaschke / b. 1976 / She has been teaching the history and theory of photography at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne) since 2013 and conducts research on concepts of photography as an information technology at the University of Lausanne / She was a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science in Berlin in 2009–2011 and 2014 / She received the Research Award of the German Photographic Association (DGPh) in 2012 for her dissertation on the history of photo agencies / Her publications include Banking on Images. The Bettmann Archive and Corbis, Spector Books (2016) and “The Excess of the Photographic Archive” in Documenting the World. Photography, Film and the Scientific Record, University of Chicago Press (2016).

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Art Historians, Professors

https://www.estelleblaschke.net/

 

Caroline von Courten / b. 1983 / She works around the (image) frame of photography. / With a background in Visual Culture Studies (BA) and Photographic Studies (MA) she is currently working on her dissertation on the theoretical connotations and implication of the photographic surface. / She has curated exhibitions on paper (Foam Magazine) and in space (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Goethe-Institut, and the Dutch Culture Centre Shanghai), organizes and moderates discussions, gives lectures internationally, writes essays, and judges diverse photographic work for competitions, graduations and portfolio reviews. / Caroline von Courten grew up in the Bavarian countryside and made her way via Utrecht, Berlin, and Melbourne to Amsterdam, where she now lives with her fiancé and two daughters.

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Curators, Art Historians, Newspaper, Gallery, Museum

https://carocou.com/

 

Claus Gunti is a Swiss Art Historian / He teaches at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) / His research primarily focusses on the history of digital images in photography, recent developments in imaging technologies (drones, 3D renderings, automated photography) and photographic materiality. / His recent publications include “Rendered realities and fabricated visual spaces” (Augmented Photography, ECAL, 2017), “Light epistemologies” (FOAM Magazine, 2018) and Digital Image Systems. Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School (transcript Verlag, 2018).

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Art Historians, Professors

 

Matthias Harder / Born 1965 / Studied art history, classical archaeology and philosophy / M.A. from Universität Kiel / 2002 Awarded Ph.D. at FU Berlin / 1995 to 1999 Curator at nGbK / 1996 to 1999 Founder and head of an experimental exhibition space for installations (empty rooms) / 1999 to 2002 Guest curator at the photography museum in Stadtmuseum in Munich, curated Herbert List and Stefan Moses retrospectives / 2002 to 2004 Head of Kunstverein Glückstadt (PAK) / Since 2004 Head curator of Helmut Newton Stiftung, Berlin / Guest curator at Deichtorhallen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Glyptothek, Fundación “la Caixa”, Tokyo Art Museum and elsewhere / Contributions to periodicals including Photonews, Aperture and Art in America and articles and essays in books and exhibition catalogs / Worked in Germany and abroad as a docent, juror, advisor and speaker / Matthias Harder lives and works in Berlin.

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Curators, Art Historians, Museum

http://www.helmut-newton.de/informationen/

Nathalie Herschdorfer worksa curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. / Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland, where she has organized many shows, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vik Muniz, Todd Hido, Garry Winogrand and Henri Cartier-Bresson. / She has been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), specifically on projects dedicated to fashion photography and for several further institutions, most recently for the Photographers’ Gallery in London for the retrospective of Alex Prager. / Author of several publications, among them Body: Contemporary Photography of the Human Form (2018), Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive (2018), The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography (2015), Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography (2012), Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past, and New Swiss Architecture (2011)

Photo: © François Wavre Rezo

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Curators, Art Historians, Museum

http://www.mbal.ch/

 

Kim Knoppers / b. 1976 / She is an art historian (University of Amsterdam), and curator at Foam / Since 2011, she has worked on solo exhibitions, including those by Melanie Bonajo, Broomberg & Chanarin, JH Engström, Anne de Vries and Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs and group exhibitions, most recently Collectivism. Collectives and Their Quest for Value (2016) and Back to the Future. The 19th Century in the 21st Century (2018) / She has contributed to various magazines including Foam Magazine, Unseen and Aperture and has written catalogue texts for Jaya Pelupessy and Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, amongst others. She is also a lecturer on the MA Photography at ECAL in Lausanne where she initiated and developed the course Do Not Disturb – Curating in Progress.

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Curators, Art Historians, Professors, Museum

http://www.kimknoppers.nl/

 

Katia Reich / Born 1969 / 1989 to 1992 assistant manager in the art business / 1999 Master’s in art history, classical archaeology and modern history / 1999 to 2005 curator with the working group for photography at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (nGbK) / 2000 to 2004 director of the gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin / 2003 and 2005 project manager for the German entries to the Venice Biennale / 2005 to 2012 project manager of the Berlin Biennale at KW Berlin, responsible for more than 300 projects / In 2007 published Die deutschen Beiträge zur Biennale Venedig 1895–2007 together with Ursula Zeller (DuMont Verlag) / 2009 and 2010 co-curated Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin / 2012 appointed curator of the 5th European Month of Photography / Published catalogue of 5th European Month of Photography (Kerber Verlag) / Katia Reich lives and works in Berlin.

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Curators, Art Historians, Gallery

Photo: © Loredana Nemes

 

Dr. Christiane Stahl / Born1963 / Studied art history, theater and film studies at École du Louvre Paris and Freie Universität Berlin / Since 2002 Head of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung / Talks, publications, jury member and lecturer with a focus on modern and contemporary photography.

 

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Art Historians, Professors, Gallery, Museum

http://www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de/