Peter Geimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1224498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Geimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Geimer |
| SIGNATURE | GEIMER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Releasing the Image
Images and the Unforeseen
A Self-Portrait of Christ or the White Noise of Photography? Paul Vignon and the Earliest Photograph of the Shroud of Turin
April 01 2015 A Self-Portrait of Christ or the White Noise of Photography? Paul Vignon and the Earliest Photograph of the Shroud of Turin Peter Geimer, Peter Geimer Peter Geimer is Professor of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is Codirector of the Center for Advanced Studies research group “BildEvidenz: Geschichte und Ästhetik.” His publications in English include “Image as Trace: Speculations about an Undead Paradigm,” Diffe…
Der Code der Leidenschaften
Der Fetischismus ist ein Schlüsselphänomen der modernen Gesellschaften. Er bestimmt nicht nur religiöse und mentale Formationen, sondern auch die libidinösen Objektbeziehungen in der Konsum- und Massenkultur. Bemerkenswert unterbelichtet sind die Spielarten fetischistischer Formen und Praktiken in den Künsten, Medien und Literaturen. Diese Lücke schließt 'Der Code der Leidenschaften'. Das Phänomen des Fetischismus ist gewiss älter als sein Diskur…
Image as Trace
Translated by Kata Gellenpeter geimer is an art historian and assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) Zürich. His major scholarly interests are the history of photography, image science, the "living image," and visualization in the natural sciences. Publications in English include the editing of UnDead: Relations between the Living and the Lifeless (Preprint, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2…
Fotografie als Wissenschaft
Photography as Science: In 1908 the English physicist Arthur Mason Worthington published A Study of Splashes, a treatise on the physical behaviour of falling drops. The photographic experiments were performed by means of an electric spark „in absolute darkness”︁. Worthington's experimental practice dealt with two different areas of knowledge production: an area the operator could perceive control from the outside and a corresponding black-box whe…
Picturing the Black Box
ArgumentIn 1867 Edouard Manet painted the execution of the Mexican emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. Manet broke with the classical tradition of history painting, for he depicted the actual shooting itself instead of choosing moments before or after the execution. Thus, the painting refers to a moment that in real time would have been far too brief to be perceptible. Manet presented a portrait of living actors whose execution has already taken plac…
Image as Trace
Translated by Kata Gellenpeter geimer is an art historian and assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) Zürich. His major scholarly interests are the history of photography, image science, the "living image," and visualization in the natural sciences. Publications in English include the editing of UnDead: Relations between the Living and the Lifeless (Preprint, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2…
Fotografie als Wissenschaft
Photography as Science: In 1908 the English physicist Arthur Mason Worthington published A Study of Splashes, a treatise on the physical behaviour of falling drops. The photographic experiments were performed by means of an electric spark „in absolute darkness”︁. Worthington's experimental practice dealt with two different areas of knowledge production: an area the operator could perceive control from the outside and a corresponding black-box whe…
Picturing the Black Box
ArgumentIn 1867 Edouard Manet painted the execution of the Mexican emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. Manet broke with the classical tradition of history painting, for he depicted the actual shooting itself instead of choosing moments before or after the execution. Thus, the painting refers to a moment that in real time would have been far too brief to be perceptible. Manet presented a portrait of living actors whose execution has already taken plac…
Picturing the Black Box
ArgumentIn 1867 Edouard Manet painted the execution of the Mexican emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. Manet broke with the classical tradition of history painting, for he depicted the actual shooting itself instead of choosing moments before or after the execution. Thus, the painting refers to a moment that in real time would have been far too brief to be perceptible. Manet presented a portrait of living actors whose execution has already taken plac…
Fotografie als Wissenschaft
Photography as Science: In 1908 the English physicist Arthur Mason Worthington published A Study of Splashes, a treatise on the physical behaviour of falling drops. The photographic experiments were performed by means of an electric spark „in absolute darkness”︁. Worthington's experimental practice dealt with two different areas of knowledge production: an area the operator could perceive control from the outside and a corresponding black-box whe…
Image as Trace
Translated by Kata Gellenpeter geimer is an art historian and assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) Zürich. His major scholarly interests are the history of photography, image science, the "living image," and visualization in the natural sciences. Publications in English include the editing of UnDead: Relations between the Living and the Lifeless (Preprint, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2…
Der Code der Leidenschaften
Der Fetischismus ist ein Schlüsselphänomen der modernen Gesellschaften. Er bestimmt nicht nur religiöse und mentale Formationen, sondern auch die libidinösen Objektbeziehungen in der Konsum- und Massenkultur. Bemerkenswert unterbelichtet sind die Spielarten fetischistischer Formen und Praktiken in den Künsten, Medien und Literaturen. Diese Lücke schließt 'Der Code der Leidenschaften'. Das Phänomen des Fetischismus ist gewiss älter als sein Diskur…
A Self-Portrait of Christ or the White Noise of Photography? Paul Vignon and the Earliest Photograph of the Shroud of Turin
April 01 2015 A Self-Portrait of Christ or the White Noise of Photography? Paul Vignon and the Earliest Photograph of the Shroud of Turin Peter Geimer, Peter Geimer Peter Geimer is Professor of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is Codirector of the Center for Advanced Studies research group “BildEvidenz: Geschichte und Ästhetik.” His publications in English include “Image as Trace: Speculations about an Undead Paradigm,” Diffe…
Images and the Unforeseen
Releasing the Image
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (4 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Depiction (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)