The Photobook Show

We’re very happy to welcome photographer Aga Łuczakowska to The Photobook Show and speak with her about her new book Râsu’-plânsu’ — which roughly translates as “laughing through tears.” Aga (based in Katowice, Poland) lived and worked in Bucharest, Romania, where over several years she photographed the tiny “interventions” that people there made as small acts of resistance against the uniformity of the decaying communist-era housing they lived in. We’ll also talk with Aga about her fascinating project “Interventions” that approachs this book as a space for intervention and personal expression, as well as a starting point to engage in dialogue with her readers.

We’ll open this episode with a short presentation of Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism and how this concept of immediacy helps us understand why the two big books we talked about in our last two sessions are so massive and why Aga’s “Interventions” work like throwing a wrench into the photographic machinery of the Big Book.