Saturday, 17.07.2010
12 pm . Panel 3

Vintage prints or screens on the wall?

Photographic institutions between preservation and communication

With Pim Baxter, Director of Communications and Development, National Portrait Gallery, London; Roberto Koch, Alessandra Mauro, Directors, Forma, Contrasto, Milan; Marloes Krijnen, Director, FOAM, Amsterdam; Christopher Phillips, Curator, International Center of Photography, New York; Urs Stahel, Director, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Presentation Florian Ebner, Director, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig

Slides or negatives, vintage or modern prints—these concepts engage exhibition organizers to this day. Yet in this age of digitalization and mass reproduction, the question of the photographic original and its aura are increasingly passed over. Perhaps in the future there will only be exhibitions of modern or exhibition prints, and none that include historical materials and valuable hand-printed work from private collections. At the same time, lens based media—artistic work involving projected and moving images—open up wholly new themes and formats for presentation in museums and exhibition venues. Analog or digitial: is it the quality that is the decisive point? What has all this gained for the visitor to the exhibition, and what has been lost? In the panel, representatives of international institutions will discuss the new perspectives of the medium of photography and its impacts on current and future museum and exhibition practices

Saturday, 17.07.2010
7 pm . Panel 5

Paper as a photographic base—the end of the printed photo book?

With Thomas Demand, Artist, Berlin; Gerhard Steidl, Publisher, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen
Presentation Walter Keller, Curator, Author, Gallerist, Zurich

For over a thousand years, paper has been the predominant medium for information exchange—for text, pictures, and of course also photography. Photo books are masterpieces of design and composition; they are the expression of carefully conceived concepts and specific intentions. And with the disappearance of photo spreads in magazines and newspapers, they have also become one of the most important forms of presentation for photography. With the range of digital books and applications available, the medium of the photo book will change even more—from quick publication to rare collector’s piece. The panel will introduce important players at the international level and explore the current role of the photo book.