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Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 753 g

Dogramaci / Gerling / Jäger

Nomadic Camera

Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6270-502-9
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 753 g

ISBN: 978-94-6270-502-9
Verlag: Leuven University Press


Multiperspective approach towards photography as a nomadic device and photographs as mobile objects of circulation.

From its introduction in the early nineteenth century and through ongoing technical developments, photography has been a mobile medium closely tied to equipment, social conditions and cultural framings. The volume Nomadic Camera investigates the technical, medial and aesthetic relationship between photography and displacement in historical and contemporary perspectives. The contributing authors adopt the term ‘nomadic’ – signifying a transitory form of existence – to explore photography beyond static concepts of being and national boundaries. Viewing photography as a formative part of this history of mobility and migration, the book explores the interplay between the concepts of the ‘nomadic’ and the ‘camera’, offering new perspectives on photography as a medium on the move. The interdisciplinary contributions approach this topic from various angles. They examine photographic tools and technologies; investigate the role of bodies, agents, and performative acts in photographic practices; explore how photography constructs and conveys narratives of movement; and address issues of image circulation, archiving, and memory.

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Introduction. Nomadic Camera: Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities

Burcu Dogramaci, Winfried Gerling, Jens Jäger and Birgit Mersmann

Section 1. Techniques and Technologies

Chapter 1. Fugitive Heat: Notes on Richard Mosse’s Thermal Images

Winfried Gerling

Chapter 2. Reflections on Photography and ‘Flight’: Encounters with Human and More-than-Human Lives in Transit

Noemi Quagliati

Chapter 3. The Nomadic Camera as a Given Camera: Concepts in Documentaries on Flight and Migration

Florian Krautkrämer

Chapter 4. “A still image with a little bit of life to it”: Towards a Migratory Aesthetic of Smartphone Photography

Svea Braeunert

Chapter 5. In Transition: Nomadic Cameras, Displaced Photographers and Migratory Images

Burcu Dogramaci

Section 2. Body, Agents and Performativity

Chapter 6. Albert Frisch and the Representation of the Body in Visual Narratives of Early Amazonian Photography

Sabrina Moura

Chapter 7. “I am not migrating to the USA”: Performing Migrancy in Paulo Nazareth’s Notícias de América

Lara Bourdin

Chapter 8. Acting for Those We Left Behind: The Performance and Exchange of Family Photographs by Guest Workers in Denmark in the 1970s

Mette Sandbye

Chapter 9. A Conversation with Fatimah M. Dadzie on Her Documentary Fati’s Choice (Le choix de Fati) (Ghana, South Africa, 2021)

Winfried Gerling and Jens Jäger

Chapter 10. The Nomadic Camera and Digital Visual Journalism: Ethical Considerations in the Making

Evelyn Runge

Section 3. Media Narrations and Narratives

Chapter 11. The Camera in the Service of Humanism and the Legacies of Neorealism

Fabienne Liptay

Chapter 12. Weaponised Environments: From the Migrant Image to the Media of Causes

T. J. Demos

Chapter 13. Unfolding Postmigrant Stories: Narratives of Resettlement and Homemaking in Tammy Law’s Photobook Permission to Belong

Birgit Mersmann

Chapter 14. Nomadic Photography: Jeff Moore’s Lockdown London Homeless Project

Christina Tente

Chapter 15. The Registry of Itinerant Architectures

Ainslie Murray

Section 4. Circulation, Archive and Memory

Chapter 16. Captured Reality: Oba Ovonramwen and the Benin Bronzes

Stefanie Michels

Chapter 17. “Nowhere in Africa”? German-Jewish Experiences of Migration and Exile in Kenya: A Family Photo Album

Anna Sophia Messner

Chapter 18. The METROMOD Archive as a “Living Archive”: Researching Exile Photography in New York in the 1930s and 1940s

Helene Roth

Chapter 19. The Israeli Government Press Office Photography Department: A Case Study on Photographic Action in the Middle East

Annette Vowinckel

Chapter 20. “Salam azizam, chetori?”: Nomadic Family Photographs in the Iranian Diaspora

Cathrine Bublatzky

Chapter 21. Moving Archives and Liquid Time: The Work of Photographs in an Age of Decomposition

Elizabeth Edwards

Biographies of the Authors


Roth, Helene
Helene Roth is research assistant at Institute of Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, from which she obtained her PhD in 2024.

Sandbye, Mette
Mette Sandbye is professor of photography studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She has published numerous books and articles on contemporary photograpjhy, both art and everyday, as part of visual culture.

Jäger, Jens
Jens Jäger is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne.

Gerling, Winfried
Winfried Gerling is Professor of Concepts and Aesthetics of New Media in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam where he works in the European Media Studies Program jointly run with the University of Potsdam.

Mersmann, Birgit
Birgit Mersmann is Professor of Contemporary Art and Digital Image Cultures at the University of Bonn.

Dogramaci, Burcu
Burcu Dogramaci is Professor of Art History and Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Burcu Dogramaci is Professor of Art History and Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Winfried Gerling is Professor of Concepts and Aesthetics of New Media in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam where he works in the European Media Studies Program jointly run with the University of Potsdam.

Jens Jäger is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne.

Birgit Mersmann is Professor of Contemporary Art and Digital Image Cultures at the University of Bonn.



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