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Belgium(つづき) 107 Jacques Meuris 108 Jean Mil 109 Robert Morian 110 Frans Pans 111 Marcel Permantier 112 Frank Philippi 113 Paule Pia 114 Julia Pirotte 115 Antoine Rulmont 116 Herman Selleslags 117 Filip Tas 118 Georges Thiry 119 Raoul Ubac 120 Guy Vaes 121 Paul Van den Abeele 122 Serge Vandercam 123 Albert Van Ommeslaghe 124 Germaine Van Parys 125 Georges Vercheval 126 Roger Wolfs
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Great Britain 127 David Bailey 128 Cecil Beaton 129 Ian Berry 130 Dorothy Bohm 131 Bill (Hermann Wilhelm) Brandt 132 Terence Donovan 133 Brian Duffy 134 Philip Jones Griffiths 135 Bert Hardy 136 Thurston Hopkins 137 David Hurn 138 Kurt Hutton 139 Tony Ray-Jones 140 Ida Kar (Kaaramian) 141 Roger Mayne 142 Don McCullin 143 Joseph McKenzie 144 Lee Miller 145 Grace Robertson 146 George Rodger 147 Patrick Ward
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Czech Republic 172 Pavel Dias 173 Eva Fuková (Fuka) 174 Tibor Honty 175 Václav Chochola 176 Běla Kolářová 177 Josef Koudelka 178 Jindřich Marco 179 Emila Medková 180 Miloň Novotný 181 Ladislav Postupa 182 Vilém Reichmann 183 Jaroslav Rössler 184 Jan Saudek 185 Josef Sudek 186 Jan Svoboda 187 Zdeněk Tmej Denmark 188 Tage Christensen 189 Vagn Hansen 190 Jesper Høm 191 Reimert Kehlet 192 Albert Mertz 193 Gregers Nielsen 194 Erik Petersen 195 Keld Helmer-Petersen 196 Viggo Rivad
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The Netherlands 197 Oscar van Alphen 198 Emmy Andriesse 199 Maria Austria (Marie Karoline Oestricher) 200 Eva Besnyö 201 Carel Blazer 202 Kors van Bennekom 203 Violette Cornelius 204 Martien Coppens 205 Bernard F. Eilers 206 Eduard (Ed) van der Elsken 207 Paul Guermonprez 208 Paul Eduard Bram Huf 209 Cor Jaring 210 Nico Jesse 211 Ata Kando 212 Hans Katan 213 Joan van der Keuken 214 Aart Klein 215 Dolf Kruger 216 Jaap d'Oliveira 217 Cas Oorthuys 218 Pim van Os 219 Sem Presser 220 Eddy Posthume de Boer 221 Frits Rotgans 222 Sanne Sannes 223 Willy Schurman 224 Krijn Taconis 225 Carel J. Tirion
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The Netherlands(つづき) 226 Jan Versnel 227 Cor van Weele 228 Eduard (Ed) van Wijk 229 Ad Windig 230 Meinard Woldringh 231 Steef Zoetmulder 232 Nico Zomer
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Estonia 233 Grigori Akmolinski 234 Heino Arras 235 Andrei Dobrovolski 236 Karl Hintzer 237 Jüri Karm 238 Edgar Johannes Kalamees 239 Ain Kimber 240 Donald Koppel 241 Udo Loigom 242 Rein Maran 243 Rein Nigol 244 Valeri Parhomenko 245 Paul Pere 246 Johannes Saal 247 Hans Wilhelm Soosaar 248 Eric Soovere 249 Halju-Hillar Suur 250 Sigrid von Bremen Thomas 251 Peeter Tooming 252 Isi Trapido 253 Oskar Viikholm 254 Hans Vilper
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Finland(つづき) 284 Max Petrelius 285 Aarne Pietinen 286 Matti Pietinen 287 Otso Pietinen 288 Matti Albert Pitkänen 289 Jussi Pohjakallio 290 Antti "Ana" Pullinen 291 Torsten Rancken 292 Eero Raviniemi 293 Rafael Roos 294 Georg Fredrik (Fred) Runeberg 295 Kristian Runeberg 296 Matti Saanio 297 Leena Saraste 298 Seppo Saves 299 Tyyne Savia 300 Vilho Setälä 301 Henrik Schütt 302 Salme Simanainen 303 Nils Björn Soldan 304 Börje Söderholm 305 Märta Söderholm 306 Georg Tschernochvostoff 307 Tenhovaara Aarne Johannes 308 Erkki Viitasalo 309 Marja Vuorelainen
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France 310 John Batho 311 Edouard Boubat 312 Brassaï (Gyula Halasz) 313 Robert Capa (Endré Ernö Friedmann) 314 Gilles Caron 315 Henri Cartier-Bresson 316 Jean-Philippe Charbonnier 317 Chim (born as David Szymin/known as David Seymour in the U.S.) 318 Lucien Clergue 319 Raymond Depardon 320 Jean Dieuzaide 321 Claude Dityvon (Claude Raimond-Dityvon) 322 Robert Doisneau 323 Martine Frack 324 André Garban 325 Jean-Claude Gautrand 326 Izis (born as Israël Biderman/later known as Israelis Bildermanas) 327 Guy Le Querrec 328 René-Jacques (René Giton) 329 Willy Ronis 330 Jean Séeberger 331 Albert Séeberger 332 Jeanloup Sieff 333 Emmanuel Sougez 334 Jean-Pierre Sudre 335 Sabine Weiss (Sabine Weber)
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Germany 336 Horst H. Baumann 337 Max Baur 338 Chargesheimer (Karl-Heinz Hargesheimer) 339 Hermann Claasen 340 Peter Cornelius 341 Max Ehlert 342 Erwin Fieger 343 Hubs (Hubertus) Flöter 344 Michael Friedel 345 Rolf (Herbert) Gillhausen 346 Gerhard Gronefeld 347 F. C. Gundlach 348 Ernst Haas 349 Robert Häusser 350 Walter Hege 351 Heinrich Heidersberger 352 Thomas Höpker 353 Heinrich Hoffmann 354 Hanns Hubmann 355 Peter Keetman 356 Edmund Kesting 357 Siegfried Lauterwasser 358 Adolf Lazi 359 Robert Lebeck 360 Norbert (Wilhelm) Leonard 361 Herbert List 362 Ulrich B. Mack 363 Charlotte March 364 Will McBride
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Germany(つづき) 365 Willi Moegle 366 Stefan Moses 367 Horst Munzig 368 Hilmar Pabel 369 Richard Peter 370 Christa Peters 371 Rico Puhlmann 372 Wolfgang Reisewitz 373 Regina Relang (Lang) 374 Willy Römer 375 Charlotte Rohrbach 376 Max Scheler 377 Karl Hugo Schmölz 378 Toni Schneiders 379 Friedrich Seidenstücker 380 Otto (Hugo Wilhelm) Steinert
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East-Germany 381 Ursula Arnold 382 Sibylle Bergemann 383 Friedrich O. Bernstein 384 Christian Borchert 385 Arno Fischer 386 Edmund Kesting 387 Fritz Kühn 388 Ulrich Lindner 389 Karl Heinz Mai 390 Roger Melis 391 Richard Peter, Sr. 392 Evelyn Richter
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Iceland 421 Hjálmar R. Bárðarson 422 Rafn Hafnfjörð 423 Þorsteinn Jósepsson 424 Ólafur K. Magnússon 425 Gunnar Rúnar Ólafsson 426 Leifur Þorsteinsson Ireland 427 Thomas Barker 428 Fergus Bourke 429 Joseph Cashman 430 Herbert Cooper 431 Larry Doherty 432 John Hinde 433 Nevill Johnson 434 Joan Kennelly 435 Pádraig Kennelly 436 Brendan Keogh 437 Alen MacWeeney 438 Elinor Wiltshire
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Lithuania 460 Kazys Daugėla 461 Ilja Fišeris 462 Povilas Karpavičius 463 Algimantas Kunčius 464 Chanonas Levinas 465 Vitas Luckus 466 Aleksandras Macijanskas 467 Romualdas Rakauskas 468 Vytautas Stanionis 469 Antanas Sutkus
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Luxembourg 502 Paul Almasy 503 Pol Aschman 504 Norbert Ketter 505 Tony Krier Sr. 506 Edouard Kutter Jr. 507 Théo Mey 508 Lee Miller 509 Marcel Schroeder 510 Edward Steichen 511 Romain Urhausen Moldova 512 Pavel Bălan 513 Boris Capnin 514 Ion Chibzi 515 Victor Rahmanov 516 Albert Simanovski
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Norway 517 Per Braland 518 Olav Tjonneland 519 Ole Friele Backer 520 Ernst Schwitters 521 Nils Viker 522 Johannes Stage 523 Rigmor (Dahl) Delphin 524 Sverre A. Borretzen 525 Aage Storlokken 526 Ivar Aaserud 527 Robert (Bob) Arthur Robinson 528 Bertel Christensen 529 Åge Fermann 530 Arild Kristoffersen 531 Dan Young 532 Kåre Kivijärvi
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Poland 533 Zdzislaw Beksiński 534 Wojciech Bruszewski 535 Zbigniew Dlubak 536 Bogdan Dziworski 537 Edward Hartwig 538 Aleksander Jalosinski 539 Eustachy Kossakowski 540 Jerzy Lewczyński 541 Zbigniew Łagocki 542 Feliks Łukowski 543 Antoni Mikolajczyk 544 Fortunata Obrapalska 545 Andrzej Pawlowski 546 Marek Piasecki 547 Wojciech Plewiński 548 Julia Pirotte 549 Józef Robakowski 550 Henryk Ross 551 Andrzej Różycki 552 Zofia Rydet 553 Bronisław Schlabs 554 Zbigniew Staniewski
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Portugal 555 Augusto Cabrita 556 Gérard Castello-Lopes 557 Adelino Lyon de Castro 558 Carlos Afonso Dias 559 Luis Cruz-Filipe 560 Jorge Guerra 561 Fernando Lemos 562 Luís Noronha da Costa 563 Eduardo Harrington Sena 564 António Sena da Silva 565 Varela Pécurto 566 Victor Palla
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Slovakia 697 Pavol Hudec - Ahasver 698 Ladislav Bielik 699 Ladislav Borodáč 700 Tibor Borský 701 Ján Cifra 702 Stano Filko 703 Igor Grossmann 704 Elo Havetta 705 Pavel Janek 706 Karol Kállay 707 Michal Kern 708 Matej Štepita - Klaučo 709 Július Koller 710 Ľuba Lauffová 711 Viliam Malik 712 Martin Martinček 713 Ivan Matejka 714 Eduard Pavlačka 715 Stano Pekár 716 Bohumil Puskailer 717 Ľubomir Rapoš 718 Magdaléna Robinsonová 719 Alexander Sterlinger 720 Juraj Šajmovič 721 Anton Štubňa
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Slovenia 722 Leon Dolinšek 723 Grupa OHO 724 Karlo Kocjančič 725 Peter Kocjančič 726 Jože Kološa-Kološ 727 Mario Maganja (Magajna) 728 Janez Marenčič 729 Janez Milčinski 730 David Nez 731 Miran Pavlin 732 Jože Petek 733 Marjan Pfeifer 734 Jakob Prešeren 735 Vladimir Simončič Vlastja 736 Stavko Smolej 737 Edi Šelhaus 738 Čoro Škodlar 739 Danilo Škofič 740 Joco Žnidaršič
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Sweden 756 Sten Didrik Bellander 757 Astrid Bergman-Sucksdorff 758 Beata Bergström 759 Kerstin Bernhard 760 Ellen Dahlberg 761 Per Forsell 762 Sven Gillsäter 763 K W Gullers 764 Hans Hammarskiöld 765 Agnes Hansson 766 Victor Hasselblad 767 Rune Hassner 768 Walter Hirsch 769 Sune Jonsson 770 Stig T Karlsson 771 Kary Lasch 772 Svante Lundgren 773 Hans Malmberg 774 Bengt Malmqvist 775 Elliord Mattsson 776 Lennart Nilsson 777 Päl-Nils Nilsson 778 Georg Oddner 779 Lennart Olson 780 Anders Petersen 781 Anna Riwkin-Brick 782 Gunnar Smoliansky 783 Christer Strömholm 784 Rolf Winquist
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Switzerland 785 Werner Bischof 786 Kurt Blum 787 Henry Brandt 788 Emil Brunner 789 Ernst Brunner 790 Balthasar Burkhard 791 René Burri 792 Luc Chessex 793 Yvan Dalain 794 Hermann Eidenbenz 795 Willi Eidenbenz 796 Gertrude Fehr 797 Hans Finsler 798 Fischli/Weiss 799 Robert Frank 800 Theo Frey 801 Georg Gerster 802 Philipp Giegel 803 Martin Glaus 804 Rob Gnant 805 Henriette Grindat 806 René Groebli 807 Peter Werner Häberlin 808 Ernst A. Heiniger 809 Rpger Humbert 810 Monique Jacot 811 Hans Peter Klauser 812 Peter Knapp 813 Walter Läubli
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Switzerland(つづき) 814 Rudolf Lichtsteiner 815 Urs Lüthi 816 René Mächler 817 Fred Mayer 818 Jean Mohr 819 Bernhard Moosbrugger 820 Arnold Odermatt 821 Markus Raetz 822 Fernand Rausser 823 Ernst Scheidegger 824 Rolf Schroeter 825 Gotthard Schuh 826 Emil Schulthess 827 Paul Senn 828 Willy Spiller 829 Christian Staub 830 Hans Staub 831 Jacques Thévoz 832 Jakob Tuggener 833 Christian Vogt 834 Kartheinz Weinberger 835 Andreas Wolfensberger 836 Michael Wolgensinger
The History of European Photography, 1900-1938, Volume I
The History of Albanian Photography The History of Austrian Photography The History of Belarusian Photography The History of Belgian Photography The History of British Photography The History of Bulgarian Photography The History of Croatian Photography The History of Czech Photography The History of Danish Photography The History of Dutch Photography The History of Estonian Photography The History of Finnish Photography The History of French Photography The History of German Photography The History of Greek Photography The History of Hungarian Photography The History of Icelandic Photography The History of Irish Photography
The History of European Photography, 1900-1938, Volume II
The History of Italian Photography The History of Latvian Photography The History of Lithuanian Photography The History of Moldovan Photography The History of Norwegian Photography The History of Polish Photography The History of Portuguese Photography The History of Romanian Photography The History of Russian Photography The History of Serbian Photography The History of Slovak Photography The History of Slovene Photography The History of Spanish Photography The History of Swedish Photography The History of Swiss Photography The History of Ukrainian Photography
List of Authors (Vol. III) Authors Biography: (in alpahebtical order by countries)
Zef Paci (b. 1963) is a professor of History of Art and Photography in the University of Fine Arts in Tirana. He graduated in Monumental Painting from High Institute of Arts in Tirana and has obtained MA from Center of Albanological Studies, Tirana at the Institute of Studies of Anthropology and Art. He has experience as curator of different solo exhibitions of some known Albanian artists and some international and national artistic events. In 2016 he was the curator of the permanent exhibition of Marubi National Museum of Photography. Author of catalogues and publications on art, image and most on photography: Monography: Marubi, photography as ritual, (2012); MARUBI: The moving lens of an archive, Publication of National Galery of Kosovo (2014). He is a professor of History of Art and Photography in the University of Fine Arts in Tirana.
Walter Moser (b. 1979) is an art historian specialized in photography. He studied in Vienna and Rome. His doctoral thesis was on Film-Stills by Warren Lynch for Erich von Stroheim's Greed. Before 2008, he worked for the Wien Museum. From 2008 to 2011, he was academic assistant in the photography collection of the Austrian Film Museum. Since 2011 he is head of the photographic collection of the Albertina in Vienna. He is curator of exhibitions and author of publications dealing with the history of photography. His exhibition projects include "The Body as Protest" (2012), "Lewis Baltz" (2013), Blow-Up – Antonioni's film classic and photography" (2014), "Lee Miller" (2015), "Provoke" (2016, in cooperation with Fotomuseum Winterthur, Le Bal, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago), and currently "Film-Stills - Photography between Art, Advertising, and Cinema" (2016).
Inn Reut (b. 1960) is an art historian, critic, curator, journalist, norn in Minsk, living in Warsaw (Poland). She did the PhD Programme in Theory and History of Art (2005) at the Belarusian Academy of Arts (Minsk), University of Manchester (UK); Master of Arts in Cultural Management at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Graduate School for Social Research of Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) - PhD Programme in Sociology. She has worked in Minsk, among other things, as Deputy Head of Exhibitions Department at the State Museum for Modern Art, Art Director for A.B. Contemporary Art Gallery at the Theatre Volnaya scena (Freedom Stage), Zhilbel Art Center, Gallery Vilnius. Between 2007 and 2011, she was teacher at the University of Warsaw. Author of a number scientific publications and texts in art catalogs. Publications, among other, in the European Photographer Guide. Among recent publications, Creative Photography in Belarus, Minsk, Artiya-Grupp, 2014; The Minsk School of Photography, St. Petersburg, ROSPHOTO, 2014; "The Minsk School" or "New Wave"? Belarusian Photography of the 1980s and 90s, Minsk, pARTisan Collection, 2013; My Pick 2003-13, Tenth Anniversary of CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, Trieste Contemporanea, 2013.
Georges Vercheval (b.1934) is the founder and past-director of the Musée de la Photographie at Charleroi. He has been teaching photography and History of Photography since 1962 in different schools, including ENSAAV La Cambre, Brussels. As a photographer, exhibited creative work, mainly from the '60s until the '80s.
Tsvetan Tomchev (b. 1960) is a photojournalist with a 35-year-long active carreer. He teaches Photojournalism at New Bulgarian Univeristy and at Art College in Sofia. The book series "The Big Reportage Photographers of Bulgaria" (2010, 2012) is the result of Tsvetan's researches on the history of photojournalism in Bulgaria of many years. Documentary filmmaking also falls in his field of interest, being co-author of 6 films. His foundation "BG Press Photo" organizes the annual homonymous pressphoto contest and exhibition of Bulgarian photojournalism since 2002. Tsvetan Tomchev is the photo editor at Trud national newspaper and director of Sofia Photo Fest.
Iva Prosoli (b. 1980) is the Senior Curator, Head of Collection of Zagreb photojournalists, Zagreb City Museum. Since 2010/11 she is a Lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb (Course: Photography and art practices since 1960). In 2014 she started her PhD on Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Prosoli curated many exhibitons of mainly Croatian photography at home and abroad. She publishes texts on photography.
Vladimír Birgus (b.1954) is the of the Institut of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opava since 1990. During the year os 1978 – 2005 he was teaching at the Department of photography at FAMU in Prague. He is a photographer and the curator and co-curator of many large exposures on Czech photography world-wide. He is also author and co-writer of many books on Czech photography.
Jan Mlčoch (b.1953) has been the artistic head of photography gallery of Josef Sudek since 1995. As an active artist he cooperated with the group of Czech conceptual artists: Karel Miler, Petr Štembera and Jiří Kovanda during 1974 – 1980. He was involved in the process of collection funds preservation. He organized many photography exhibitions in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, where he works, as well as in museums and galleries in Czech Republic and abroad.
Jens Friis (b. 1960) holds an MA in Art History with focus on photographic art. From 2003-2016, he was curator of the photographic collection at Museet for Fotokunst in Odense as well as the artistic co-director of the Danish photo festival FotoTriennale.dk initiated by the same museum. During this period he also served as editor-in-chief of the magazine KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video supported and published by the museum. Now in its 27th successful year, KATALOG is independent with Jens Friis as publisher. Furthermore, since 2016, Friis works as a freelance curator, reviewer, lecturer and author. He has written numerous articles for the magazine KATALOG and has contributed to the encyclopaedia Dansk Fotografi Historie (Danish Photographic History) published in 2004. Previously, he has been an active member of the committee of Gallery Image in Aarhus and for a number of years he worked for a commercial gallery, Hamiltons, in London selling photographic art. Jens Friis is a member of AICA International, ICOM and Oracle and serves on several international award committees as well as the advisory board of the Spanish magazine EXIT.
Karin Bareman (b. 1982) is exhibitions and projects organiser at Autograph ABP as well as an independent writer, moderator and curator in photography based in London. Her articles have appeared in Camera Austria Magazine, Foam Magazine, Unseen Magazine, Of the Afternoon Magazine, EXTRA Magazine and have been published on American Suburb X, Photoworks, and Potaatoo. She previously worked as assistant curator at Foam, the photography museum in Amsterdam. In 2016 she was awarded the Transfer North Fellowship for a residency at the Photographic Centre, Oulu Finland, and in 2015 the Milton Rogovin Research Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona for her forthcoming research into the photographic representation of Appalachia. She obtained an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and a subsequent MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester.
Peeter Linnap (b. 1960) is a theorist and historian of visual culture and photography. Full time professor and photography department leader of Tartu Art College, Estonia. As a researcher his articles have been published by Springer, Intellect ao academic publishers. As an artist his work has been shown in Europe, U.S and Latin America. Linnap is a member of IAVS/AISV, AICA, FIPRESCI, Estonian Semiotic Society ao organizations. As a curator he has produced Saaremaa Biennials (1992, 1995 and 1997) and touring shows of contemporary Baltic photography „Borderlands" 1993 (UK), „Out of the Shadow" 1998 USA.
Elina Heikka (b. 1959) is Museum Director at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki . She was editor and editor-in-chief in Valokuva – Finnish Photography magazine from 1994 to1998. After that she worked as a researcher at the Finnish Museum of Photography and as a special researcher at the National Gallery / Central Art Archives from 2001 to 2007. She has published widely on contemporary photography, history of Finnish photography and visual culture.
Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, PhD, (b. 1971) is a Professor of Exhibition Studies and Spatiality at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki. 2009–2016 she has worked as the Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography. Rastenberger is an artistic director and co-founder of 'The Festival of Political Photography'. Previously she was engaged as a researcher in the Academy of Finland's project (2005–2009). She worked as an educational curator at The Helsinki Art Museum (2002–2005) and the editor-in-chief of KUVA – the magazine of visual culture (1998–2000). Her special interests are new forms of photography as contemporary art, exhibition as critical practice, art and society, feminism and digital environments.
Pierre-Jean Amar (b. 1947) is a Frrench photographer. He committed his first 15 years of his work to landscapes, still life and interios and later he started making portraits and female nudes, publishing a book in 1990 entitled "Nudes". Parallel to his career as a photographer, for the past 18 years, he has taught the History of Photography at the University of Provence. He has edited numerous books on the subject and also organised training courses, workshops and conferences in the art of photography. At the moment he is working on a book of memories about Les Rencontres d'Arles since 1974 to 1990. Since 1965, he has presented his work at over 150 exhibitions in France and abroad.
T. O. Immisch (b. 1953) has run the collection of photographs at the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Saale) since 1987. He studied psychology and art history in Berlin and Halle. He has written and edited publications on New Vision photography, GDR photography and contemporary international photo art.
Boris von Brauchitsch (b. 1963) is a photographer, art historian and curator. He is the author of biographies (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Lesser Ury, Gabriele Münter), fiction (Alles wahr, Im tiefen Tal der Todeskralle, documentale) and essays on photography (9, I don't like white, Kleine Geschichte der Fotografie).
Colin Pantall (b. 1963) is a writer, lecturer and photographer based in Bath, England. His photographic work focusses on his immediate domestic environment. He writes for a range of publications and organisations including Photo-Eye, The British Journal of Photography, Foam, and Magnum Photos, and writes for his blog, Colin Pantall's Blog. He is also on the editorial and artistic committees of Photobook Bristol and Gazebook Sicily Festivals. Pantall currently works as a Senior Lecturer on the Documentary Photography Course at the University of South Wales in Cardiff.
Costis Antoniadis (b. 1949) studied Physics and subsequently photography at the Institut Francais de la Photographie in Paris. He is a founding member of the Photography Centre of Athens and in 1985 was appointed Professor at the Department of Photography at TEI Athens. For many years, he has been working as curator and organizer of numerous exhibitions. In 2003 he was appointed as Director of the Museum of Photography at Thessalonica. He also exhibits in Greece and abroad, and many of his works feature in individual and national collections.
Gabriella Csizek after completing her studies in art theory and cultural anthropology, started working for the Hungarian Museum of Photography. Currently she is the curator of the Hungarian House of Photography. Her main field of interest is contemporary photography and the connecting interdisciplinary areas. Csizek participates in the selection and editing of photographic material for exhibitions and books, and her name is closely associated with the "Folyamatos Jelen" ("Continuous Present") exhibition and catalogue series.
Kata Balázs (b. 1981) graduated in Art History and Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. She studied and conducted various research projects in Poland, the United Kingdom and Italy. Her main interest is Modern and Contemporary Art as well as Photography. Currently she is working on her PhD.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1959) is an Associate Professor in art theory and visual culture at the University of Iceland and a curator based in Paris and Reykjavik. She has organized and participated in numerous national and international curatorial projects with Icelandic and European institutions. Her most recent publications comprise of a number of solo articles and co-authored books and chapters, including "New Maps for Networks: Reykjavik FLUXUS– A Case of Connections. " In Martha Langford (eds.) Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press (2016); "Outsides and insides of the exhibition Trout Fishing in America and Other stories. " In Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, You Must Carry Me Now- The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species. Phoenix: Arizona State University Art Museum (2015).
Justin Carville (b. 1970) is Lecturer in Historical & Theoretical Studies in Photography and is Chair of the Photography Programme at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire. He is a former Government of Ireland Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences and is the author of Photography & Ireland (Reaktion: 2011) and Visualizing Dublin: Visual Culture, Modernity and the Representation of Urban Space (Peter Lang, 2013).
Gigliola Foschi (b. 1951) lives and works in Milan (Italy). She is an art critic and historian of photography. For 15 years she has written for the cultural pages of the daily "L'Unità" and she has collaborated with various magazines such as "Camera Austria","Photo Italia", "Zoom", "Abitare", "Gente di Fotografia". She is teacher of History of Photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan and member of the MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) advisory committee. As an indipendent curator she has organized several exhibitions and she has collaborated for the Modern Art Gallery Collection Lercaro (Bologna); the Gallery San Fedele (Milano); the European Photographic Festival (Reggio Emilia). She has also written texts for several catalogue and books. Her latest book is: Fotografie del silenzio. Forme inquiete del vedere (Pictures of Silence. Restless ways of seeing), Mimesis, Milano, 2015.
Alise Tifentale (b. ) is art and photography historian and PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Tifentale is the author of Photography as Art in Latvia, 1960-1969 (2011) and co-curator of the Pavilion of Latvia at the 55th Venice Art Biennale (2013). She is the founder and editor-in-chief of photography magazine Foto Kvartals (2006-2010). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Networking Knowledge, CAA.Reviews, Art Margins, Russian Art & Culture, and others. Tifentale is a co-author of research projects about photography in social media such as Selfiecity (2014) and The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 hours in Kyiv (2014).
Agnė Narušytė (b.1970), is an art critic and historian of photography, Head of the Art History and Theory Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, curator and researcher of contemporary photography.
Margarita Matulytė (b.1961) is a historian of photography and expert, Curator and Researcher of the Historical Photography Collection at the Lithuanian Art Museum, Lecturer of Visual Journalism at The Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University.
Paul di Felice (b. 1953) lives and works in Luxembourg. Doctor of Visual Arts, Paul di Felice is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Art Pedagogy and Deputy Head of the Institute of Romance Studies, Media and Arts at the University of Luxembourg. His field of research is re-presentation and de-construction in contemporary photography. He also works as an art critic and as an independent curator of international contemporary photography exhibitions. He is an active member of AICA and co-organizes the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg. Since 1984, he is co-editor and co-publisher of Café-Crème edition, an international art and photography magazine and edition. He has been frequently invited as a curator to international photography meetings and as a jury member for exhibitions and contemporary art biennials. Since 2016, he is Vice-President of the Administration Board of Mudam (Museum of Modern Art Luxembourg).
Françoise Poos (b. 1964) holds a Ph.D. in Visual Culture from De Montfort University, Leicester (UK). Her particular focus is on photography, archives and museums, memory and identity. She is a reseacrh associate at the University of Luxembourg and currently investigates the role of photography in promoting the image of the steel industry in Luxembourg and in shaping the country's identity in the framework of the research project Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Changes.
Tudor Stavila is the Director of the Study Center of Arts of Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He presented the art from Moldova in Kiev (1998), Bucharest (2002, 2005.2009, 2010, 2011), Cluj (2002, 2003), Alba Iulia (2002) Strasbourg (2001), Osnabrück (2005). he is the author of published about 120 scientific publications in Chisinau, Moscow, Bucharest and Cluj, Strasbourg, Osnabruk and Sofia covered issues of history and theory of medieval and modern arts in Moldova and its interference with European arts. Coordinates activities within the PhD ASM 7 doctoral thesis arguing in arts specialty - Visual Arts. The author of 12 monographs on national arts and interference with regional and European art.
Christine Hansen (b. 1969) is a Norwegian photographer and art historian (PhD). She is the author of numerous articles on photography's role in contemporary art, realism and documentary. In addition to an active career as artist she has recently curated the exhibitions Crystals of Dust. An Exhibition about dementia and Alzheimer at Gallery F15 (2015) and Slow Pictures. Photography in Contemporary art at Lillehammer Art Museum (2016). Hansen is artistic research leader and associate professor in photography at Bergen Academy of Art and Design.
Sigrid Lien (b. 1958) is professor in art history and photography studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Project leader for the Norwegian team in the HERA-project PhotoClec (Museums, Colonial past and Photography) 2010-2012, head of "Negotiating History: Photography in Sámi Culture», funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2014-2017). Has published extensively on nineteenth century as well as modern and contemporary photography in a Norwegian context.
Adam Mazur Phd (b.1977) assistant professor at the Artistic University in Poznan. In years 2002-2013 worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw and curated several exhibitions such as "New Documentary" (2006), "Red-Eye Effect" (2008), "Missing Documents. Photographs of Polish Transformation After 1989" (2012) to list only major group shows. Published books "Histories of Photography in Poland 1839-2009" (2010), "New Phenomena in Polish Photography after 2000" (2012), "Depth of Field. Essays on Polish Photography After 1945" (2014).
Emilia Tavares (b.1964) is a senior curator (photography and new media) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art- Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, as well as a researcher and art critic. MA in Art History (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University Nova of Lisbon. She was published several studies about Portuguese photography and visual culture, and as curator have produced several exhibitions, including the Portuguese representation at Photo España Festival (2009 and 2010) She publishes regularly in specialized newspapers, magazines and catalogues, and frequently gives lectures in cultural and educational institutions.
Ruxandra Balaci (b.1965) is an art critic and curator. From 2002 to 2014 she is the founder Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporay Art/MNAC in Bucharest. Former founder and Head Department Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Art in Bucharest (1995-2000), co-director of Artelier magazine Bucharest(1998-2004) and co-founder and Director of GAD photogallery (1992-2002). She contributes to international catalogues, curated more than 50 exhibitions and publication on visual culture. She was the curator for "Bucharest nach 89" – Ludwig Forum Aachen, 1996; commissioner of the Romanian pavilion at the 49 Biennale di Venezia, 2001 and co-curator in In Den Schluchten des Balkans – 2003, Fridericianum, Kassel; Transit Project-NOW Here Europe - Fondazione Olivetti/51 Biennale di Venezia, 2005. Currently writing books: "My subjective memories over arts and facts." and "Romanian contemporary Photography and the Visual Arts".
Evgeny Berezner (b.1951) is the Head of the PhotoVisa International Photo Festival in Krasnodar. Since 2003 he has been Deputy Director in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Since 2008 he has been Deputy Director General in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Since 2011 he has been the Head of Project "In Support for Photography in Russia", IRIS Foundation, Moscow. He has published in Russian and foreign magazines, photography album and books. He has curated over 250 exhibitions of contemporary and classical Russian and foreign photography held in Russia and other countries and is one of the three Russian curators of the main exhibition program of International Biennial of Photography FotoFest 2012 in Houston, Texas, USA.
Irina Сhmyreva (b.1974), PhD., is the head researcher in State Institute for Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow. She is also co-founder and art-director of PhotoVisa, the International Festival of Photography in Krasnodar region (www.photovisa.ru). She is very influenced writer on history of Russian photography, since 2007 she has a monthly column in FOTO&video magazine in Russia, she is an author of the book of Essays on Russian photography of 20th century, she is also writer and photo-editor of such books as Assembling Reality. Two Ways of Life by Rejlander, The Photographic History. Photo heritage from Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts and many others. As a curator she shown dozens of exhibitions of Russian photography, old and contemporary, at FotoFest in Houston, Month of Photography in Bratislava, in art institutions of Europe, Asia, Australia and both American continents. She collaborates with Evgeny Berezner since 1999.
Ivan Manojlović (1978) is a curator and art historian. He is working as a curator of technical and cinematography collection at the Museum of Yugoslav history in Belgrade since 2008. He is author, co-author and project manager of numerous projects and exhibitions focusing on the topics of contemporary photography, history, popular culture, culture of remembrance and reinterpretation of cultural heritage of socialist Yugoslavia: Design for a New World (2015), Red kiosk K67 (2015), Dissonant Heritage (2014), Design Center Belgrade (2013), Technology to the People (2012), The Last Young Yugoslavs (2011), Tito photo (2010). Ivan was also organizer and coordinator of all program activities in Museum of Yugoslav History in the period 2008-2013. In 2009 and 2014 he was a member of team for development of Strategic plan of Museum of Yugoslav History.
Václav Macek (b. 1952) is a professor at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He is the Head of FOTOFO Foundation and the Central European House of Photography and the Director of annual photography festival Month of Photography Bratislava. He is the author and co-author of many books on photography and film.
Miha Colner (b. 1978) is an art historian who works as a curator, publicist, editor and lecturer specialised in photography, artists' moving image and other forms of media art. He is a curator and program coordinator at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (based in Ljubljana and Vienna). Furthermore, since 2005 he has been part-time contributor for number of newspapers, magazines, radio programs, and specialist publications as well as a lecturer. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Alejandro Castellote (b. 1959) From 1985 through 1996 he was director of the Photography Department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where organized the Festival FOCO (1985-1989). He has been artistic director and founder of PHotoEspaña in Madrid (1998-2000). In 2003 he curated MAPAS ABIERTOS. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002; C on Cities at the Padiglione Italia in the X Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006; Festival Getxophoto, Bilbao (2007-2009) and guest curator for Latin America at the Biennale Photoquai (Museum Quai de Branly) 2007-2009, Paris; guest curator at Seoul Photo Fair 2010, South Korea andSingapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) 2012; director of the Daegu Photo Biennale 2014 in South Korea. In 2015 he was chief curator -with Wang Qingsong and François Hebel- of the First ChangJiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing, China. He is currently director of the Latin American Master of Photography and Visual Arts at the Centro de la Imagen of Lima, Peru.
Jan-Erik Lundström (b. 1958) is a curator, critic and historian of contemporary art. He is the former director of Sami Center of Contemporary Art and of Norrbottens Museum. From 1999 to 2010 he was the director of Bildmuseet. He is the former chairman of Centre for Photography, Stockholm and former director of Fotografiska museet. His latest curatorial projects include Top of the World, Fall Back Spring Forward, Surviving the Future, The Map: Critical Cartographies, Politics of Place and Society Must Be Defended (1st Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art). He was the chief curator of Berlin Photography Festival, 2005 and the artistic director of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale. He is the author and editor of many books, including Thinking Photography – Using Photography, Nordic Landscapes, Tankar om fotografi, Ursula Biemann: Mission Reports, Looking North: Representations of Sami in Visual Arts and Litterature, and Irving Penn: Photographs. Lundström has contributed to major publications such as Horizons: Towards a Global Africa, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph and The History of European Photography of the 20th Century. Lundström has been a guest professor at, among others, Aalto University, Helsinki, Konstfackskolan and the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Malmö Art Academy, HISK, Antwerpen/Gent, University of los Andes, Bogotá, and Oslo Art Academy, Oslo.
Urs Stahel (b. 1953) created with Fotomuseum Winterthur one of the most important places for photography in the world. He has been managing the museum from 1993-2013. Since 2013, he has been the curator for the platform Paris Photo (2014), the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg Photo Festival (2015), and, on a regular base, for the new center for industrial culture MAST in Bologna. He also works as an author and a lecturer (at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of Zurich). He is a writer and editor of numerous books, for example, books about Paul Graham, Roni Horn, Rineke Dijkstra, Anders Petersen, Amar Kanwar, Ai Weiwei, Shirana Shahbazi, Boris Mikhailov as well as books on themes such as "Industriebild" ('Pictures of Industry'), "Trade", "The Ecstasy of Things" and "Darkside I + II".
Tatiana Pavlova (b.1955) is an art historian and freelance curator. She is currently working at Art History chair in Kharkiv State Academy of Art and Design and has published several books and articles about Ukrainian photography.
Zef Paci (b.1963) is Professor of Art History and Painting in the University of Arts, Tirana. He graduated in Monumental Painting from High Institute of Arts in Tirana and has obtained MA from Center of Albanological Studies, Tirana at the Institute of Studies of Anthropology and Art. He has experience as curator of different solo exhibitions of some known Albanian artists and some international and national artistic events. Author of some catalogues and publications: Monography: “Marubi, photography as ritual”.
Ermir Hoxha (b. 1979) graduated in The Academy of Arts - Painting, Tirana in 2003 In 2007 l was graduated in University of Bologna, Literature and Philosophy Faculty - Dams - Arte Course (Disciplines of arts, music and of spectacles) History of Contemporary Art Branch. Currently l am following the Ph.D. Studies, Cultural Heritage, Department of History, History-Philology Faculty; Thesis on the: “Albanian Art during the period 1945 – 1990”.
Ulrike Matzer (b.1972) is a writer, critic, and historian of photography. From 2009 to 2012 she has conducted research on the Austrian photo-chemist and photo-historian Josef Maria Eder at the Albertina’s Photographic Collection (financed by the FWF Austrian Science Fund). Together with project director Maren Gröning, she is the co-editor of Josef Maria Eder: Photographie als Wissenschaft. Positionen um 1900 (within the series photogramme, ed. by Bernd Stiegler, Munich: Fink 2013).
Nadezhda Savchenko (b.1966) is the head of the Written and Image Sources Department and curator of the photographic collection at the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk. She has conducted in the field of the history of photography in Belarus.
Georges Vercheval (b.1934) is the founder and past-director of the Musée de la Photographie at Charleroi. He has been teaching photography and History of Photography since 1962 in different schools, including ENSAAV La Cambre, Brussels. As a photographer, exhibited creative work, mainly from the '60s until the '80s.
Katerina Gadjeva (b.1978) is an art historian and lecturer at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. She specializes in the field of history and theory of photography. She is tha author of several research publications as well as monography books.
Želimir Koščević (b.1939) is a freelance curator and expert in national and international contemporary art and photography. He is a Member of AICA international, ICOM, CIMAM and IKT. Professional advisor of Foto Gallery Lang in Samobor.
Vladimír Birgus (b.1954) is the of the Institut of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opava since 1990. During the year os 1978 – 2005 he was teaching at the Department of photography at FAMU in Prague. He is a photographer and the curator and co-curator of many large exposures on Czech photography world-wide. He is also author and co-writer of many books on Czech photography.
Jan Mlčoch (b.1953) has been the artistic head of photography gallery of Josef Sudek since 1995. As an active artist he cooperated with the group of Czech conceptual artists: Karel Miler, Petr Štembera and Jiří Kovanda during 1974 – 1980. He was involved in the process of collection funds preservation. He organized many photography exhibitions in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, where he works, as well as in museums and galleries in Czech Republic and abroad.
Mette Mortensen (b.1971) is an assistant professor at the Department of Media, Recognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her book Kampen om ansigtet. Fotografi og identifikation (Facial Politics. Photography and identification) is forthcoming (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010). She has also written numerous articles on photography, war and media, surveillance and contemporary art.
Louise Wolthers (b. 1974) is a Researcher in photographic art, history and theory at The Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg. She has done research and curated exhibitions at institutions such as The National Museum of Photography and The National Gallery of Denmark. She has co-edited numerous publications including Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive (Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center & Bildmuseet Umeå University, 2009), Paul Graham: 1981 & 2011 (MACK, 2012) and Still Life / Work Life (Art & Theory, 2013). She has contributed to academic journals and books on photography, art history and contemporary art.
Mirelle G. Thijsen (b.1960) lives and works in Amsterdam as independent researcher in the cultural history of photography, critic and curator. Founded in 1988 International Photography Re- search (IPhoR) in Amsterdam. Curated various exhibitions. From 1993 till 2006 she was a critic for the Dutch daily paper Het Financieele Dagblad. In 2005-2007 she was chair and assistant professor at the Master’s in Photographic Studies (MaPS) at the Leiden University. In 2013 opened a Researcher in Residence (RiR) in the Southern Vosges in France.
Peeter Linnap (b. 1960) Ph.D, is a photographic theorist, historian, a full time professor and Department Leader at Tartu Art College, Estonia. Peeter Linnap has held personal exhibitions in Europe, U.S and Latin America, and is a member of AICA, FIPRESCI, INSEA, Estonian Semiotic Society and Society for Art Historians. He has been awarded nationally and internationally for both his artistic and theoretical activities.
Kimmo Lehtonen (b.1962) M.Phil., MA SocSc is a senior assistant in the International Masters programme on Digital Culture at the University of Jyväskylä. He is a founding member of The Centre for Creative Photography and has been a director of the same association since 1994. He has written and edited several books and articles on photography.
Marc Tamisier (b.1960) is in charge of Image Education at the National Center for Pedagogical Documentation. Books published : Opinion, information, rumeur, propagande (dir. Marc Tamisier et Michel Costantini), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2010 ; Texte, art et photographie, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2009.
Klára Szarka (b. 1955) is a freelance curator, photohistorian and editor. She was the head of the culture column of the daily newspaper Magyar Hírlap and has been a columnist of photographic periodicals. She is a lecturer of art history and photo history at Camera Anima Art School and she is the President of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography. She researches the History of Hungarian Photography in the 20th century and published several monographies and books.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (b.1959) is an assistant professor in art history and art theory at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University Iceland and Dr. Kristján Eldjárn Research Fellow at National Museum Iceland. She has curated a big number of exhibitions and contributed to several publications.
Dr. Justin Carville (b.1970) is a lecturer of Historical and Theoretical Studies in Photography at School of Creative Arts at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire.
Roberto Mutti (b.1947) lives and works in Milan, Italy. Graduated in Philosophy. For 25 years he has been writing as a critic of photography in the Milanese edition of the daily paper “ la Repubblica” and he has collaborated with various magazines such as “Fotografare”, “Il Fotografo”, “Photo Italia”, “Foto Graphia”, “Immagini FOTO pratica. He is member of the Scientific Committee of both MIA - Milan Image Art Fair and Fotofestival Milan.
Agnė Narušytė (b.1970), is an art critic and historian of photography, Head of the Art History and Theory Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, curator and researcher of contemporary photography.
Margarita Matulytė (b.1961) is a historian of photography and expert, Curator and Researcher of the Historical Photography Collection at the Lithuanian Art Museum, Lecturer of Visual Journalism at The Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University.
Vilnis Auziņš (b.1948) is a lecturer of History of Aesthetics of Photography and the Chairman of the Board of Foundation “FotoForma”, 2010. He was a head of Latvian Museum of Photography between 1990 and 2009.
Paul di Felice (b.1953) is Doctor of Visual Arts, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Art Pedagogy at the University of Luxembourg. His field of research is representation and deconstruction in contemporary photography. He has been a workshop leader of the annual Art Workshop organized by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain in collaboration with University of Luxembourg, since 1998. He is a founding member of the online magazine lacritique.org and an active member of AICA Luxembourg. He is an independent curator of international contemporary photography exhibitions and he co-organizes the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg (www.emoplux.lu). Since 1984 he is co-director of Café-Crème édition& médiation.
Françoise Poos is a curator and a researcher in the field of Visual Culture. She was the research assistant for the exhibition The Bitter Years, opened by the Luxembourg Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in 2013, and the editor of the accompanying book: The Bitter Years – The Farm Security Administration Photographs Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen, published by Thames and Hudson. She is more generally interested in photographic archives and non-canonical photography. She is currently working as research collaborator at the Université du Luxembourg for the project “Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Challenges (FAMOSO 2)”. In the context of this nationally funded project, she investigates an archive of glass plate negatives from the steel industry in Luxembourg, and its changing meanings and uses over time.
Iurie Foca (b.1957) studied at Moldovan Technical University and graduated as engineer/electro-mechanic and later photography at Social-professions Department, section Photography of Moldovan Technical University. Since 1974 he has been working as a photo-reporter for several magazines in Moldova. Is a member of Photo Artist Union of Moldova and Fine Artist Union of Moldova. Since 1996, has led photo lab at National Art Museum of Moldova.
Mihai Potârniche (b.) is Director of the Fotomoldpres TV Department, State Information Agency Moldpres. Director of photography and author of photos for some 50 albums and books including the album Parliament of Independence (author of the concept and photos) published in 2010 on the occasion of 20 years since the first Parliament democratically elected started to work. Member of the Union of Artists, Union of Journalists and Union of Artists Photographers of Republic of Moldova.
Peter Larsen (b. 1943) is Danish citizen. Since 1988 professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Head of «Photography in Culture», a national research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2003-07). Larsen has published extensively on visual media and visual culture. Selected publications: Album. Fotografiske motiver (Oslo, Spartacus, 2004); Ibsen og fotografene. 1800-tallets visuelle kultur (Oslo. Universitetsforlaget, 2013); co-authored with Sigrid Lien: Norsk fotohistorie. Frå daguerreotypi til digitalisering (Oslo, Det norske Samlaget, 2007) and Kunsten å lese bilder (Oslo, Spartacus, 2008).
Krzysztof Jurecki (b. 1960) studied History of Art in Krakow (diploma work in 1985). Between 1990 - 1993 studied on doctoral studies in Institute of Art in Warsaw. From 1985 to 2005 worked in Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, as Head Curator Department of Photography in Visual Arts. He organized many exhibitions in Poland (e.g. Zofia Rydet, Jerzy Lewczyński, Joseph Beuys, Jan Saudek, Erwin Olaf). He publishes in EXIT, Kwartalnik Fotografia. He published with K. Makowski a book Słowo o fotografii / A note about Photography (2003). He writes many texts about history of Polish avant-garde, from the photography of 20th century and from 1980s until now. He is also interested in avant-garde art and post-modern theory.
Emilia Tavares (b.1964) is a senior curator (photography and new media) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art- Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, as well as a researcher and art critic. MA in Art History (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University Nova of Lisbon. She was published several studies about Portuguese photography and visual culture, and as curator have produced several exhibitions, including the Portuguese representation at Photo España Festival (2009 and 2010) She publishes regularly in specialized newspapers, magazines and catalogues, and frequently gives lectures in cultural and educational institutions.
Eugen Rădescu (b.1978) is politologist, cultural manager, curator and theoretician. He wrote for various magazines and newspapers, curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme “Identity Factories”, “How Innocent Is That?” , “presently i have nothing to show and i’m showing it!” and "Common Nostalgia" at Pavilion Bucharest. He published the book “How Innocent Is That?” at Revolver Book Berlin. He is co-editor of PAVILION – journal for politics and culture and co-director of Bucharest Biennale (with Răzvan Ion).
Irina Tchmyreva (b.1974) is the head researcher and Curator of the Photographic and Multi-media department. She is aslo an editor of a web-server on photography Photographer.ru. As a curator Ms. Tchmyreva is very influential in the art world.
Evgeny Berezner (b.1951) is the Head of Project “In Support For Photography in Russia”, IRIS Foundation, Moscow and the Head of the Photovisa International Photo Festival in Krasnodar. Since 2003 he has been Deputy Director in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Since 2008 he has been Deputy Director General in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. He has published in Russian and foreign magazines, photography album and books. He has curated over 250 exhibitions of contemporary and classical Russian and foreign photography held in Russia and other countries and is one of the three Russian curators of the main exhibition program of International Biennial of Photography FotoFest 2012 in Houston, Texas, USA.
Goran Mali (b. 1947) is a photographer, chronicler and historian of photography. Writer of essays and prose articles. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1947, July 23. Majored in Sociology and History of Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Freelance artist from 1979. His photographs were exhibited several times independently. He is the author of a number of custodial projects describing periods and authors that belong to the history of photography in Serbia in XIX and XX century.
Václav Macek (b. 1952) is a professor at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He is the Head of FOTOFO Foundation and the Central European House of Photography and the Director of annual photography festival Month of Photography Bratislava. He is the author and co-author of many books on photography and film.
Primož Lampič (b. 1957), PhD, is an art historian and ethnologist. He works as a museum councillor at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana. He is also an assistant professor at the Departement of Art History at the Faculty of Arts at the Universtity of Ljubljana. He gives lectures and leads the seminars of history of photography and of modern art and art critique. He published three monographs, several catalogues and scientific papers.
Juan Naranjo (b.1960) is a photo historian and independent curator. He is a member of the advisory committee of the department of photography at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and director of the photography department Soler & Llach, Barcelona.
Jan-Erik Lundström (b.1958) is a curator, critic and historian of contemporary art and photography. He is the director of the Sami Center of Contemporary Art, Norway and the chairman of the Center of Photography in Sweden. Jan-Erik Lundström is a prolific lecturer at international symposia and has been a guest professor at many art academies. His latest book is Knowing Photographs.
Peter Pfrunder (b.1959) worked as a freelance journalist, author, and exhibition curator, while directing the Forum der Schweizer Geschichte/Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Schwyz (1995–98). He has had a variety of publications and exhibitions on the history of photography with a special focus on Switzerland. Since 1998 he has served as Director and Curator of the Fotostiftung Schweiz / Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur. Recent publications: Theo Frey, Fotografien (Limmat Verlag, Zürich 2008); Gotthard Schuh – A Kind of Infatuation (Steidl Publishers, Göttingen 2009); Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present – A Different History of Photography (Lars Muller Publishers, Baden 2011).
Tatiana Pavlova (b.1955) is an art historian and freelance curator. She is currently working at Art History chair in Kharkiv State Academy of Art and Design and has published several books and articles about Ukrainian photography.
List of Authors (Vol. I) Albania: Rubens Shima, director, National Gallery of Art, Tirane Austria: Anton Holzer, Fotogeschichte editor-in-chief, Vienna Belarus: Nadya Savchenko, historian of photography, Minsk Belgium: Georges Vercheval, founder and former director of Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi Bulgaria: Katerina Gadjeva, Lecturer in History of Culture Department, New Bulgarian University, Sofia Croatia: Želimir Koščević, freelance curator Czech Republic: Vladimír Birgus, Institut of Creative Photography, Salesian University, Opava, Jan Mlčoch Denmark: Mette Mortensen, Film and Media Studies Section, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Louise Wolters, photo historian Estonia: Peeter Linnap, art critic and theorist, TV director, curator and teacher, Professor and Head of Photography Department at TAC (Tartu Art College) Finland: Kimmo Lehtonen, Lecturer in Digital Culture, Studies In Visual Communication, University of Jyväskylä France: Marc Tamisier, photo historian Germany: Dr. Ivo Kranzfelder (volume 1) lecturer of history and theory of photography, University for Applied Sciences in Würzburg, curator of private collection, Great Britain: Gerry Badger, photo historian and critic Greece: Nina Kassianou, curator and photography critic (Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Photographic Centre of Skopelos) Hungary: Béla Albertini (volume 1) Lecturer in art history and photographic reportage, Eötvös-Loránd-University (Budapest), University Kaposvár, Iceland: Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Art Historian, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland. Dr. Kristján Eldjárn, Research Fellow, National Museum of Iceland.
Ireland: Dr. Justin Carville, PhD, MA, BA (Hons), Historical & Theoretical Studies in Photography, School of Creative Arts, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin Italy: Gigliola Foschi, critic and photographic art historian, Lithuania: Margarita Matulyté , Agne Narušyté research fellow at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, supervises practice-based PhD students at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Latvia: Vilnis Auziņš, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga Moldova: Irina Grabovan, director of the Art Center AoRTa The Netherlands: Tamara Bergmans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Norway: Sigrid Lien phd, prof., University in Bergen, Poland: Lech Lechowicz (volume 1), Film School, Lodz, Portugal: Emilia Tavares, curator, the Chiado Museum, Romania: Silvian Ionescu, freelance curator and art historian Russia: Irina Tchmyreva, head researcher, Photographic Department of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Serbia: Milanka Todic (volume 1) Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, Beograd, Slovakia: Václav Macek, director, Central European House of Photography, Bratislava Slovenia: Lara Štrumej (volume 1), senior curator at The Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Spain: Juan Naranjo, freelance curator, Barcelona Sweden: Jan-Erik Lundström, director, Bildmuseet, Ulmea Switzerland: Martin Gasser (volume 1), curator Fotostiftung Schweiz, Ukraine: Tetyana Pavlova, Kharkov, art critic, member of the International Association of Arts Critics (Certification 1263), Freelance curator