Seeing Pictures // Acting Pictures. The "Freiberger Fotofreunde" (Freiberg Friends of Photography) as Community of Visual Practice

看图片//表演图片。

• 批准号: 429701372
• 负责人: Dr. Torsten Näser
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V. Dresden (ISGV)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/429701372?language=en
• 关键词: Seeing; Pictures; Acting; Pictures.; Freiberger

Archives holding more than 700,000 photographs and a history of almost 70 years – these are the impressive records of the "Freiberger Fotofreunde". The club was founded in 1950 and lasted through two political systems. It counts among the oldest associations on the territory of the former GDR. Through exhibitions, publications, and the illustration of press articles and brochures its members shape the image and the visual memory of the Saxon mining town up to today. GDR amateur photography remains under-analysed and therefore constitutes a significant research gap. A new positioning of the term "amateur" (discursive to categories like professionalization, economization, and technicalization) could give impulses to approaches of social theory on knowledge concepts and practices. For the amateur movement was an area that was institutionalized and significantly supported by socialist culture policy. By exploring photography as a topic concerning its various actors and their everyday practices between production, presentation and social contexts the project offers inroads into such policies of cultural governance. The Freiberg Club constitutes a research topic that is both rare and insightful: Its members have agreed to make their documents available to the project, and are prepared to give interviews and to open their meetings and events to the project researchers. The total photographic inventory makes available an unusually broad variety of materials, genres, and motives. It includes political rallies as well as snap shots in the style of social documentary photography, working environments and portraits. The pictures are of high technical quality: As the "Fotofreunde" call themselves "professional amateurs", borders between professionals and hobby photographers have consistently been blurred. Taking the example of professionalism, the project will explore a whole range of related hierarchies of knowledge and praxis. By choosing praxeological and participative approaches, the project combines historical and present perspectives, the research focuses on visual products and practices at the same time. By working with selected samples (in sub-project “Bildsehen”) visually focused analytical methods take center position but enriching analysis by conducting biographical and subject-oriented interviews. This allows for the exploration of interdependencies between the language of the images and the respective (cultural) political, social, and individual context. Hence, esthetic orientations become ascertainable in the diachronic process. The sub-project "acting through images" ("Bildhandeln") explores the still ongoing lively activities of the club with ethnographic methods. By asking how local rules of "good" photographic practice are shaped and negotiated in the community of praxis we concentrate on human-object-relations that at the heart of the visualization practices of the "Freiberger Fotofreunde".

拥有70多万张照片和近70年历史的档案-这些都是“Freiberger Fotofreunde”令人印象深刻的记录。该俱乐部成立于1950年，经历了两种政治制度。它是前民主德国领土上最古老的协会之一。通过展览，出版物，以及新闻文章和小册子的插图，其成员塑造了萨克森矿业小镇的形象和视觉记忆。东德的业余摄影仍然没有得到充分的分析，因此构成了一个重大的研究空白。对“业余”一词的新定位（对专业化、经济化、技术化等范畴的论述）可以推动社会理论对知识概念和实践的研究。因为业余运动是一个制度化的领域，并得到社会主义文化政策的大力支持。通过探索摄影作为一个主题，涉及其各种行为者及其在生产，展示和社会背景之间的日常实践，该项目为此类文化治理政策提供了切入点。弗赖贝格俱乐部构成了一个既罕见又有见地的研究课题：其成员已同意向项目提供他们的文件，并准备接受采访，并向项目研究人员开放他们的会议和活动。总的摄影库存提供了一个异常广泛的各种材料，流派和动机。它包括政治集会以及社会纪实摄影风格的快照，工作环境和肖像。这些照片具有很高的技术质量：由于“摄影爱好者”称自己为“专业业余爱好者”，专业摄影师和业余摄影师之间的界限一直很模糊。以专业精神为例，该项目将探索知识和实践的整个相关层次。通过选择行为学和参与性的方法，该项目结合了历史和现在的观点，研究重点是视觉产品和实践的同时。通过选定的样本（在子项目“Bildsehen”中），视觉上集中的分析方法占据了中心位置，但通过进行传记和面向主题的访谈丰富了分析。这允许探索图像语言与各自（文化）政治，社会和个人背景之间的相互依存关系。因此，审美取向在历时的过程中是可以确定的。分项目“通过图像行动”（“Bildhandeln”）用人种学方法探讨俱乐部仍在进行的生动活动。通过询问如何在实践社区中塑造和协商“良好”摄影实践的地方规则，我们专注于“弗赖贝格摄影爱好者”可视化实践的核心-人-物-关系。