Worker Photography as an Iconographic Exhibition Concept. Recontextualizing its Material and Artistic Traditions

该项目>工人之眼<产生了对近代早期媒体思想史的基础研究，涉及非资产阶级的观点和自我介绍。然而，在这项研究中，有些方面只能触及，如业余艺术家和专业艺术家之间的互动，妇女作为表演者和制作者的作用，或在现代宣传方法发展的背景下，新闻稿和其他公共标志形成的表达方式对广告的意义。此外，“工人摄影”这一流行文化至今还没有被纳入艺术史或日常生活史，也没有以任何值得重视的方式进入博物馆实践。因此，我们打算与合作伙伴合作，扩大我们的研究重点，以实现对魏玛共和国时期视觉意义的新视角。作为一种媒体考古学，计划中的转移项目旨在开发新的视觉文化的详细学术方法。与此同时，它也可以提供一个开明的观点到一个主要的视觉目前。展览的图像概念将考虑到有关机构的收藏概况和知识基础。同样，艺术和历史博物馆的传统也将被纳入其中，在图像的制作者和动机以及接受者的圈子方面，将考虑性别因素。对博物馆学实践的研究和对知识转移结果的分析将伴随这一过程。

The project >The Eye of the Worker< has produced fundamental research towards a media history of mentalities in early modern time, regarding the perspectives and self-presentation of the non-bourgeois classes. In this research, however, some aspects could only be touched, like the interaction between amateurs and professional artist, the role of women as performers and producers, or the significance of press sketches and other expressions of public sign formation with their reference to advertising, in the context of the development of modern propaganda methods. In addition, the popular culture of >worker photography< has, so far, neither been included into the historiography of art or of daily life nor into museum practice in any appreciable way.In cooperation with our partners, we therefore intend to extend our research focus in order to achieve a new perspective on the significance of the visual during the Weimar Republic. As an archeology of the media, the planned transfer project aims to develop new elaborated academic approaches to visual cultures. At the same time, it could also provide an enlightened view into a predominantly visual present. The iconographic concept of the exhibition will take into account the collection profiles and knowledge bases of the institutes involved. In the same way, the traditions of art and history museums will be included discerningly, and gender aspects will be considered in regard to the producers and the motives of images as well as their circles of recipients. Research into museological praxis and an analysis of the results of knowledge transfer will accompany the process.