Mass Media Manipulation. A combination of workshops by renowned photographers, lectures by theorists and specialists in this field and exhibitions of well-known artists will be on offer to all those with an interest in photography.
Mass Media Manipulation. Workshops, Exhibitions, Presentations and Lectures
Director: Marita Ruiter
Organized by Galerie Clairefontaine
Due to the role of technology in the contemporary world, the function of the image
in our society has changed. Millions of images are published and diffused, and
remain instantly accessible.
Selectively presented and manipulated, they lose what
Walter Benjamin called their "aura". They are, however, as used by the mass media,
more influential than ever. The possibilities of image manipulation are constantly
developing and this entails dangers.
A combination of workshops by renowned photographers, lectures by theorists and
specialists in this field, and exhibitions of well-known artists will be on offer to
all those with an interest in photography.
The theme of "mass media manipulation" is
illustrated, for example, in the works of Massimo Vitali and Dionisos Gonza'lez, in
the lectures by Klaus Honnef, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Paul
Rauchs and Michel Guerrin, as well as by Giacomo Costa, Peter Bialobrzeski, Yvon
Lambert, Daniele Buetti, Antoine Agoudjian in the workshops on the manipulation of
images, and by Daniel & Geo Fuchs about the possibilities of spreading them through
the media, as well as in the films by Dieter Appelt, Michael Najjar, Roland Wirtz,
Stanley Greene and William Klein.
For details see: http://www.photomeetings.lu
Galerie Clairefontaine- Espace 2
14 rue du Saint-Esprit- Luxembourg