Being a Photograph

accompanied the exhibition "Ray, Rock, Rowan (Being a Photograph)" at Camera Austria, Graz from 8.3. – 18.5.2025 and was designed by James Langdon.

In “Being a Photograph”, Susanne Kriemann proposes a shift in the understanding of photography from the noun “photograph” to an active from and focuses on photography a a figure of thought to engage with the idea of an animate language. Such a grammar of animacy could extend beyond plants and animals to rocks and places, leading to different ways of being in the world.

The reader is designed by James Langdon, assembles texts by authors who offer a further frame of reference for the artist’s work: Siobhan Angus, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Zippora Elders, Daisy Hildyard, Bhanu Kapil, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Lisa Rosendahl. The foreword is written by Margit Neuhold & Christina Töpfer.

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  • Editors
    Christina Töpfer, Margit Neuhold, Susanne Kriemann
  • Designer
    James Langdon
  • Publisher
    Edition Camera Austria
  • Authors
    Siobhan Angus, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Zippora Elders, Daisy Hildyard, Bhanu Kapil, Susanne Kriemann, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Margit Neuhold, Lisa Rosendahl, Christina Töpfer
  • Date
    2025
  • ISBN
    978-3-902911-85-8
  • Pages
    108
  • Size
    13 x 20 cm
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