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Nomadic Camera: Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities
This anthology, which brings together perspectives from history, media studies, art, art history and ethnology, examines the "nomadic camera" in the context of migration, flight and displacement. As a documentary and theoretical concept, it expands the understanding of migration and photography.
Nomadic Camera examines photography as a nomadic dispositive and photographs as mobile, circulating objects. This interdisciplinary anthology examines the technical, medial and aesthetic entanglements of photography and displacement from a historical and contemporary perspective. The contributions think photography beyond static concepts of identity and borders, analyse apparatuses and practices, narratives of movement as well as questions of circulation, archiving and memory. The volume thus opens up new perspectives on photography as a medium of mobility and migration.
The publication was funded by the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg, which is available to members of Brandenburg's eight colleges and universities as a funding opportunity for monographs and similar publication formats as well as innovative projects in this area and is managed by the Open Access Brandenburg (Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Brandenburg).
About the editor: Prof Winfried Gerling is Professor of Concept and Aesthetics of New Media in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. He has been teaching on the European Media Studies degree programme, a joint project with the University of Potsdam, since 2000. His research focusses on the theory and practice of photography, digital aesthetics and media environments.
