Jorge Ribalta blogs for Fotomuseum Winterthur
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'Still Searching' with JORGE RIBALTA
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Artist, curator and author Jorge Ribalta blogs for Fotomuseum Winterthur until July 15 To read and comment go to
www.blog.fotomuseum.ch
Contact
fotomuseum[at]fotomuseum.ch
+41 52 234 10 60
Address
http://blog.fotomuseum.ch
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
8400 Winterthur
Switzerland
Centrist Liberalism Triumphant?
In a new series of blogs, Jorge Ribalta, an artist, editor and curator based in Barcelona, proposes a historical understanding of documentary practices in photography, specifically during the Cold War. The rise of documentary rhetoric and discourses in the prewar era reflected the need to provide a visual tool for the representation of the working class and its new agency in mass democracy. But histories of photographic modernism, mostly a postwar construction, offered specific 'liberal' versions of the emergence of the documentary discourse that had long-lasting effects. Until July 15, Ribalta will bring to discussion how liberal humanism seemed to be an unsurpassable discursive and ideological horizon in postwar photographic avant-gardes and their historical narratives.
www.blog.fotomuseum.ch
