Category Archives: archive

LEE MILLER BLOG POST

Posted on April 15, 2024 by katharina guenther

Last Thursday, 11 April, marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I wrote a little something on Lee Miller‘s photographs of the first funeral procession to mark this day. You can read it on Klassik … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER IN KLASSISCH MODERN

Posted on March 28, 2024 by katharina guenther

Very proud to have contributed to the latest issue of klassisch modern, the annual magazine of Klassik Stiftung Weimar, with fantastic texts by Peter Neumann, Anna Stiede and Nancy Hünger, amongst others. I wrote, once more, about Lee Miller‘s Buchenwald … Continue reading →

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BACON AND EPHEMERAL ART

Posted on January 29, 2024 by katharina guenther

Bacon’s working material was not meant to last. In fact, the decay of the torn leaves, paint-spattered photographs and newspaper clippings was a pivotal element in his art – both for his iconography and on a conceptual level. In that … Continue reading →

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FOTOLOT REVIEW

Posted on October 14, 2022 by katharina guenther

My book Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting has been reviewed in Peter Truschner’s Fotolot (Perlentaucher. Online Kulturmagazin). You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/eWqzVduE

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TWO LECTURES AT THE HUGH LANE: FRANCIS BACON – IN THE MIRROR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on July 30, 2022 by katharina guenther

It was great to present two lectures on Francis Bacon’s use of photographic sources at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, where Bacon’s studio material is held today. Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography, Public Lecture, 24 July … Continue reading →

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VIDEO TALK: FRANCIS BACON – IN THE MIRROR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on June 5, 2022 by katharina guenther

Hear me talk about my research on Francis Bacon’s pictorial sources on The Estate of Francis Bacon’s official youtube channel: video talk My book Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting is now available … Continue reading →

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FRANCIS BACON – IN THE MIRROR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on November 9, 2021 by katharina guenther

I am very proud that my book Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting was published by De Gruyter in May 2022. It is based on my PhD research and thus marks the end … Continue reading →

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LEE MILLER LECTURE AT BUCHENWALD

Posted on August 22, 2021 by katharina guenther

As part of the international MWW-Summer School 2021 ‘Collection Spaces – Räume des Sammelns’, I will be presenting the lecture ‘‘Das Goethehaus ist ziemlich mitgenommen‘ – Lee Millers Blick auf Buchenwald und Weimar’ at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation … Continue reading →

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BRITISH ART JOURNAL

Posted on March 30, 2019 by katharina guenther

In 2016 I did a research project with The John Deakin Archive on the artistic exchange between John Deakin and Francis Bacon. ‘Take it very much further away from the photograph’, an essay on how Bacon appropriated Deakin’s photographs, has … Continue reading →

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FRANCIS BACON IBOOK

Posted on February 7, 2013 by katharina guenther

My iBook on Francis Bacon, created together with The Estate of Francis Bacon and ArtFinder, is available on iTunes.

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