Harris & Ewing, 1939 July 1.
A photography magazine Membrana has published an open call for photographs and projects thematizing the master – dynamics of visual domination, presence, opressiveness and hegemony.
The new issue will raise questions: What role do photographs play in the creation, strengthening, or subversion of (the images of) the master? Do the photographs (un)wittingly legitimize the power, or do they recastpower within the wider social network of signs? What is their role in the subject’s compliance with the authority, acceding to the rules of the master? Is domination via visual signs nowadays a necessary condition for social dominance or it is just a side spectacle?
The call is open for textual (essays, theoretical papers, overview articles, interviews, columns) and visual contributions (photographic projects) that explore the master, domination, and subjugation in the relation to photographs, from contemporary and historical viewpoints,
and through (but not limited to) the following perspectives: authoritarian figures and photography; master-slave dialectics and the image; the master, white supremacy, right-wing nationalism and photography; power, charisma and figures of the master; fine-art photography and subversion of figures of the master; visual propaganda; icons and iconicity; the master and an utopia, a spectacle, an ecology of images nad the optical unconscious, power and social media, etc.
The deadline for contribution proposals (abstracts and/or visuals): July 27th, 2020.
The contributions will be published in the English edition – magazine Membrana and/or in the Slovenian edition – magazine Fotografija.
The full text of the opean call in English can be found on the link.
