New Show!
07.12.2024 – 28.02.2025
From Yangon
to Peshawar
Fraglich Publishing
by Lukas Birk
Lukas Birk is a prolific Austrian photographer, curator and publisher known for his innovative archival work, particularly in Asia. As the initiator of Fraglich Publishing, his mission is to track down rare, forgotten and neglected photographic archives and make them available to the public through local micropublishing.
We are showing treasures from our ‚Fraglich’ collection.
Opening:
07.12.24 as of 18:00
Special: 07./08.12
Körnerstraße-Xmas-Market
12:00 -18:00
THE BOX
Körnerstraße 6–8
Köln - Ehrenfeld
Open:
Thursday: 16:00–22:00
Saturday: 12:00–16:00
and by Appointment
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On View: 24/7
Check out THE BOX program!
from Photo Peshawar by Lukas Birk & Sean Foley / Fraglich Publishing
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Dummy Award 25
Since 2010, the Kassel Fotobook Festival has been inviting photo-graphers to take part in its „Kassel Dummy Award“. Over this period of time thousands of photobook-prototypes have been submitted from all over the world. Hundreds of books from the shortlist have been exhibited at countless international photography events, festivals and exhibition spaces. The participating photographers have been able to establish contacts with galleries, publishers and festivals and present their books to an international audience.
Since 2023 the PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne is in charge of the Dummy Award. We are sure that this will increase the importance for a new generation of photographers and put it on an even broader footing. Together with MAS Matbaa in Istanbul, our printing and publishing partner, this is destined to maintain the high quality and reputation of the Dummy Award in the future.
The rules are easy: each year we invite all photographers worldwide to take part. From all entries, around 50 books are selected for a shortlist to be exhibited at international photography events. Together with the votes of the shortlist jury each exhibiting venue has a vote — either determined by public vote or by curators choice. With these votes 5 winning books will be selected from the shortlist. One of these books will receive the PBM/MAS Prize. The book that wins the PBM/MAS Prize will be produced and published by the leading Turkish photobook printing and binding house MAS Matbaa in cooperation with the PhotoBookMuseum. The costs will be fully covered. The other four winning books will receive a production grant for printing their books at MAS Matbaa.
www.dummyaward.org
Recommended reading
»Form Follows Me«
Photobook Design and Authorship
The European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh) has invited Christoph Schaden as a guest editor for another special photobook edition of it's bi-annual magazine PhotoResearcher (No.42). Have a look!
"Form follows me" is the title of the new issue of ESHPh-PhotoResearcher, which PBM has produced in cooperation with the ESHPh. For the first time, the renowned scientific periodical is exploring the function and significance of design in photobooks from the point of view of authorship.
The eight text contributions examine the significance of book design in the context of monographic works from the Second World War to the present day. The analyses focus on internationally active auteur photographers such as Otto Steinert, Dominique Darbois and Eikoh Hosoe. But also on subversive expressions of Chilean photobook culture and the legendary MoMA designer Carl G. Laanes, who was responsible for the design of the legendary "William Eggleston's Guide", and not least on influential contemporary designers and artists such as Ana Druga and Thomas Gust, Hans Gremmen and Dayanita Singh.
Click here for more about PhotoResearcher
Cover from Otto Steinert, Subjektive Fotografie , Bonn 1952. © Museum Folkwang, Essen
Previous Show!
STUDIO COLOGNE
Portraits from Cologne Photo Studios 1861-1928
24 May to 23 June 2024
on Körnerstraße
STUDIO COLOGNE: The Museum goes street!
Through an innovative street-exhibition Körnerstraße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld will be transformed into a walk-in outdoor and indoor exhibition. An 800-metre-long parcours full of discoveries will be created, bringing historical portraits from Cologne's photo studios to new life.
For all! For free! For one month!
more on:
www.studio-cologne.de
Photoatelier BLUM & HÖFFERT, 1908-1918, Hohe Str. 111a
Museum goes Club
Japanese Photobooks from the Collection
A big thank you to the Nachtigall Team and all the many vistors that joined us on that wonderful TOKYO EXPRESS experience.
Click here for the TOKYO EXPRESS program
Photo: Koji Onaka from memories of younger days in Shinjuku, Tokyo 2018
New Release
Photobooks for everyone!
“The Photobook in Art and Society”
Participative Potentials of a Medium
Photography has been undergoing a paradigm shift since the turn of the millennium. The fine art print has been increasingly replaced, making way for the photobook which is experiencing a certain boom. However, it remains to be seen if the medium finds its way out of the ivory tower of the elitist photography scene. Is the photobook capable of establishing a visible literature that is accessible and understandable for everyone?
The PhotoBookMuseum and the Montag Foundation for Art and Society have tackled this question in a collaborative mobile project. Under the motto "World in Transition", the participatory qualities of photo books have been examined on the basis of new communication concepts. In the recent publication, professionals from the fields of science, art practice and culture institutions impressively unveil the social relevance of the medium. The Reader demonstrates how photobooks nowadays, act as a structuring force against the immanent flood of images.
“The Photobook in Art and Society”
Participative Potentials of a Medium
Montag Stiftung Kunst und Gesellschaft (Ed.)
in cooperation with The PhotoBookMuseum
Swiss brochure binding
16,7 x 24 cm
468 pages, 220 col. und b/w images.
English
Jovis Verlag, 2020
ISBN 978-3-86859-594-9; € 42,80
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