Category Archives: digital

KUNSTTEXTE REVISIONS

Posted on January 21, 2025 by katharina guenther

OUT NOW: Jule Schaffer and I edited the first issue of the new section “photography” of the online magazine kunsttexte.de – Journal für Kunst und Bildgeschichte (University of Heidelberg).Available here (open access)Under the title “Re:Visions”, four essays and two interviews … Continue reading →

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OLAF METZEL BLOG POST

Posted on October 23, 2024 by katharina guenther

Sometimes art can teach you a thing or two about the times and the world we live in. This certainly is the case with Olaf Metzel‘s exhibition “Deutschstunde“, which is on display at Weimar’s Belvedere Castle until 1 November. I … Continue reading →

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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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KUNSTTEXTE

Posted on April 3, 2024 by katharina guenther

SPREAD THE WORD: Jule Schaffer and I just founded a new section on photography within the German open access journal kunsttexte. For the first edition, which we are planning to launch towards the end of the year, we just published … Continue reading →

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DIGITAL COLLECTION RESEARCH

Posted on January 25, 2024 by katharina guenther

Last year we asked “Is digital better?” at the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association’s end-term conference at Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The conference proceedings have just been published by Wallstein Verlag, with essays discussing topics from how digital methods can help … Continue reading →

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IS DIGITAL BETTER?

Posted on February 19, 2023 by katharina guenther

It was a great pleasure to conceptualise and host the end-term conference of the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association at Klassik Stiftung Weimar last week (16/17 February). We asked Is digital better? and discussed this question with colleagues from the … Continue reading →

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“TAKE IT VERY MUCH FURTHER…” ON JSTOR

Posted on March 29, 2021 by katharina guenther

My essay “‘Take it very much further away from the photograph’ – How Francis Bacon (1909–1992) appropriated the photographs of John Deakin (1912–1972)”, which I published in the British Art Journal in winter 2018/2019, is now available on Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48584557

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INFLUENCE AND INSPIRATION

Posted on July 27, 2018 by katharina guenther

We just launched new material on the ‘Influence & Inspiration’ behind Francis Bacon’s art on francis-bacon.com. I had the great pleasure of planning and authoring the section with entries on Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso, Sergei Eisenstein, Lucian Freud, John … Continue reading →

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FRANCIS-BACON.COM

Posted on November 29, 2017 by katharina guenther

We just relaunched francis-bacon.com, the official website of The Estate of Francis Bacon. You can now see all 584 known Bacon paintings online, together with detailed information on the artist’s life and work.

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PERRY OGDEN INTERVIEW

Posted on December 28, 2014 by katharina guenther

I interviewed Perry Ogden on photographing Francis Bacon’s Reece Mews studio before its relocation to Ireland in 1998. Find out more in the latest issue of SuperMassiveBlackHole focussing on studio spaces. Download the magazine here

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