The Photobook Show
What is a Photograph, Actually?
episode 22
What is a photograph — is it the negative? the digital file? a print hanging in an exhibition? or maybe a picture in a photobook? In this episode of The Photobook Show, we discuss the physical manifestation of the image. We’re used to a photograph being a malleable thing — it can assume many forms, like appearing on a screen or a billboard on the street or as a well-crafted print, all while staying the “same.” We’ll look at three photographers — American photographer Deborah Turbeville, French photographer Sarah Moon, and Japanese artist Kunié Sugiura — and their unique approaches to their prints and the special demands and compromises that this forces onto a photobook of their work.
Stefan Frank is a photographer and writer, working from Heidelberg, Germany. Way before he came to photography, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Ruhr Universität Bochum and worked as an IT specialist. He studied at Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard in Paris in 2017, before he eventually began studying photography at Ostkreuzschule, Berlin, with Peter Bialobrzeski. He graduated in 2023 with the work Irgendwo (“Anywhere”), a project dealing with politically motivated crime and the terror-spree of the far right in Germany. He has been teaching with StrudelmediaLive since 2020, giving courses on surrealism, poetics of space, gestalt theory for photographers, and more. His work has been exhibited in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
Stefan teaches the poetics of space, nighttime photography, and much more (including presenting The Photobook Show) for StrudelmediaLive.
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