Call for Papers:
Photography in Germany – the medium in recent scholarly discourse and
artistic and museum practice

CAA Atlanta February 2005

DEADLINE: May 14, 2004

This session will explore the situation of photography in German
collections, art schools, and universities. It invites international
scholars, artists, curators, and art dealers familiar with the German
situation to discuss the current status of photography as an academic
as well as an artistic subject matter. Photography has received
increased attention by collectors and museums since the 1970s, while a
critical debate on photography has taken much longer to become part of
academic discourse. The recent international debate on the visual turn
and the establishment of visual studies departments sheds a new light
onto photography. Papers should address how photography’s place in
German scholarship and collection activities has adapted to and has
influenced today’s art discourses; and to what extent this can help us
understand photography’s agency elsewhere and determine its future role
within art history and visual studies.

Deadline May 14, 2004

Please send proposals of 300 words or less and a one-page CV to Miriam
Paeslack, 2353 Vine Street, Berkeley, CA 94708, mpaeslackcca.edu, by
May 14, 2004. The annual meeting of the CAA, the College Art
Association, will be held in Atlanta, GA from Feb. 16-19, 2005.

Miriam Paeslack
2353 Vine Street
Berkeley, CA 94708
(510) 665-3934