Guest Editors: Matthias Gründig, Steffen Siegel

It may sound strange at first; the combination of words just doesn’t seem to fit properly: Playing the Photograph. And it is supposed to. Unlike “Photography and Play”, the interest of this PhotoResearcher in “Playing the Photograph” does not suggest having a definite answer to the multitude of such questions. Playing, here, is not supposed to point to a self-contained field of study that intercepts with that of photography. Instead, the articles in this issue direct our gaze to the diversity of sometimes rivalling understandings of play – be they aleatoric or strategic, childish or subversive – and they ask what practices of photographic play could look like.

Matthias Gründig, Steffen Siegel, Ulla Fischer-Westhauser, Uwe Schögl
Editorial

Matthias Gründig
If This is the World at all. Approaches to the Relationship between Photography and Play

Steffen Siegel
Inheriting Bayard, or: How to Play Serious in Front of a Camera

Sabine T. Kriebel
Germaine Krull’s Shadowplay

Andrés Mario Zervigón
The A-I-Z at Play with Photography

Susan Laxton
Shannon Ebner’s “Strike“: Conflict and Play in the Age of Electronic Information

Alise Tifentale
Rules of the Photographer’s Universe

Lev Manovich
“Find Your Own Filter“. Creating Instagram Photography

Markus Rautzenberg
Dissolving into the Frame. Ludic Mediality in Computer Games and Photography

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