Shifting paradigms Mexico in color. Ellen Auerbach’s exile photography

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Balbi, Camilla
Shifting paradigms Mexico in color. Ellen Auerbach’s exile photography.
Itinera. Rivista di filosofia e di teoria delle arti. Roč. 2022, č. 23 (2022), s. 114-130. ISSN 2039-9251
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378033
Klíčová slova: color photography * exile * atmosphere * Ellen Auerbach
Obor OECD: Arts, Art history
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/18551/16342

In 1955, Ellen Auerbach, a Weimarian advertising photographer of the Bauhaus circles, chose to document her trip to Mexico with her colleague Eliot Porter, using color photography for the first time in her career. This article seeks to contextualize, for the first time, Auerbach’s decision to use color in her work – and within the history of modernism in general. In a discourse where exile studies interweave closely with art theory, I intend to trace the paths of a modernism that might have been, but that was erased by history and migration, demonstrating how the use of color in a non-Western exile context became a starting point for rethinking the aims and epistemic possibilities of the photographic medium within and beyond the modernist perspective.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0350613