INTRACTABLE y UNTAMED/ DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1979

In 1979, Roland Barthes distinguished between two different approaches to photography its taming through aesthetic categories such as authorship, oeuvre and genre, or its frenetic impact that he saw rooted in the »awakening of the intractable reality«. Twenty ye ars on, photography, in particular, is discussed as a document able to re-evaluate the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.In the publication of the exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, both considerations form the starting point for an exemplary presentat ion of hi...[Read more]