I am an art historian who writes about photography and whatever cultural topics inspire me. I also work as a freelance editor, copywriter, translator, and university lecturer in Berlin, Germany.
A Sense of Loss and Making: A Conversation with Laura Letinsky
An interview with Laura Letinsky, a Chicago-based photographer and Professor and University of Chicago.
International Photography Networks and Walter Hahn’s Museum for Photography, Dresden
The Museum für Photographie, founded, developed and directed by Dr. Walter Hahn for only twelve years in the city of Dresden, has only recently emerged in scholarship on East German Photographic culture. Although the museum definitely enjoyed a relationship to the East German cultural authorities within the Cultural League, or Kulturbund, it does not sit easily in the historiographical category of ‘official’ photography in the GDR. Hahn’s version of the history of photography was challenging ...
The Power of Protest Imagery Then and Now: Christian Schulz’s West Berlin
Afterimage, volume 45, number 2 & 3
CIA-sponsored “Cultural Freedom” Comes Home: Parapolitics at HKW
The recent exhibition Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), curated by Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, and Antonia Majaca, interrogated the intertwined re-canonization of modernism and the international propagation of a US-backed, anti-communist idea of “cultural freedom” put forth by the many-armed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) from 1950–1967. Inaugurated in 1950 in Berlin by anti-totalitarian intellectuals at an event le...
| H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften
| H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für...
A Socialist Family of Man | Zeithistorische Forschungen
A Socialist Family of Man | Zeithistorische Forschu...
Herlinde Koelbl's Targets and Martin Roemers' Eyes of War
Review of these exhibitions at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. Published in Afterimage.
Rez. ZG: S.E. James: Common Ground; Kultur, Kulturgeschichte und -wissenschaft, Mediengeschichte und -wissenschaft, Historische Bildforschung, Kunstgeschichte und -wissenschaft, Politik, Politikgeschichte und -wissenschaft
Jun 26, 2014 ... Sarah Goodrum über: James, Sarah E.: Common Ground. German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain. New Haven 2013....
A NEW/OLD ETHICS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT: MIRJANA VRBASKI’S “VERSES OF EMPTINESS”
The photographic portraits that compose Mirjana Vrbaski’s series “Verses of Emptiness” (2011) depict women in neutral light and nondescript clothing with steady, quiet facial expressions. Some of the photographs are beautiful, others strained and awkward, but all are arresting and ultimately ambiguous, side-stepping obvious emotional, cultural, or temporal codes. These images do not primarily distinguish themselves in terms of style; they intervene in the history of the photographic portrait ethically more than aesthetically. They recall the theories of Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin concerning the ontology of photography and the formation of our relationship to it as both subjects and viewers in the early days of the medium...
Images from the Unflinching Lens of Gundula Schulze Eldowy at C/O Berlin
Lagos - Visual Arts - Goethe-Institut
Theater Review: "Trio" At Lounge 2 | Neon Tommy
Theater Review: "Trio" At Lounge 2 | Neon Tommy
My LA to Z: Ruth Weisberg - Los Angeles Magazine
My LA to Z: Ruth Weisberg - Los Angeles Magazine
Pasadena Weekly - A conversation in paint
See painter Ruth Weisberg create present from past at the Norton Simon Museum. By Sarah Goodrum 11/26/2008. Like it? Tweet it! SHARE IT! In “Guido ......
My LA to Z: Chandra Watson - Los Angeles Magazine
My LA to Z: Chandra Watson - Los Angeles Magazine