Professor Steffen Siegel of the Folkwang Universität der Künste will be our guest at the CCA seminar “What is Photography?” which runs through the academic year 2020-2021. Prof. Siegel will pre-circulate three reading selections for our discussion, two authored by him (one published and the other in draft from) and a third by a scholar who has influenced his recent research. Our conversation will take place over Zoom.
The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at admin@cca.rutgers.edu to receive a Zoom invitation and the readings.
Speaker
Steffen Siegel
Steffen Siegel
Folkwang Universität der Künste
Steffen Siegel is Professor of Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of Arts, Essen (Germany). At Folkwang, he leads the Master’s program “Photography Studies and Research.”Among his recent publications are two books on contemporary photography: Belichtungen. Zur fotogra schen Gegenwart and Ich ist zwei andere. Jeff Walls Diptychon aus Bildern und Texten (2014). His critical edition Neues Licht. Daguerre,Talbot und die Veröffentlichung der Fotogra e im Jahr 1839 (2014) was recently published in English as First Exposues: Writings from the Beginning of Photograph (Getty Publications, 2016). Prof. Siegel is one of the two co-editors of the important book series photogramme.