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Curriculum Vitae

Born 1949 in Bonn/Germany. Trained photographer with specialization in advertising, architectural, and industrial photography, worked in these fields for several years to finance further studies. Studied art history, communication research, and German literature in Munich and Bonn. PhD on the history of architectural photography in Germany 1900-1975. Worked as head of a building preservation campaign concerned with 19th century interiors, 1978/79. Freelance writer, exhibition maker, and artist between 1975 and 1990. Member of the Artist Placement Group, London from 1978 to 1984. 1985/2004 Professor of Photography and (since 1993) Electronic Image Media at the Niederrhein University of Applied Science in Krefeld; since 1995 Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Media Theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Awarded an Honorary Diploma of the Academy of Arts in Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 2000 Since 2004 Professor in Design history and Design theory at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbruecken.

Lives in Bonn and Saarbruecken.

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The Architectural Image(2004)

The complete catalogue of Mona Breede's exhibition at the Gallery Dittmar Berlin (2003)

The Tashkent lectures on Design, Media, and Education:

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Recent Publications in English language:

The Photogram As Sculptural Reprojection, in:

Exh.cat. Hans Kupelwieser, Postmedial Sculptures, Graz Karlsruhe Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, pp.014-030. modern greetings, Photographed architecture on picture postcards 1919-1939, edited by Kirsten Baumann and Rolf Sachsse, collected, conceived and selected by Bernd Dicke, Stuttgart : Arnoldsche Art Publishers 2004. Instrument Leica. Defining a More Than Functional Product, in: Volker Albus, Achim Heine (ed.), Views of Brand Culture: Leica, Berlin : nicolai 2003, pp.128-144. Love and the Reproduction. A Marginal Note on Photography in the Work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, in: Peter Weibel (ed.), Phantom of Desire, Visions of Masochism, Vol.1, Essays and Texts, Graz Munich : belleville 2003, pp.215-216.

Turning Gliding Forming Seeing, Gudrun Kemsa and the Game of Movement in Space, in: Rolf Sachsse (ed.), Gudrun Kemsa Bewegte Bilder, Cologne : Schaden 2003.

Lightshaft and Adjustable Tripod, Marginalia on Peter Keetman's Manner of Working During His Visit to the Volkswagen Factory in 1953, in: Exh.cat. Peter Keetman Volkswagenwerk 1953, Wolfsburg Bielefeld 2003, pp.159-160.

Terminated: An Artist's Place(ment). The History of Het Apollohuis as a Lesson in Art and Society, in: Het Apollohuis 1995-2001, Eindhoven 2002, pp.90-92. EAST. CITY SCAPE EAST. STADT LAND OST. Archiv der Wirklichkeit - Ein Projekt der VNG, Stuttgart : Hatje Cantz Verlag 2001.

Made in Germany as Image in Photography and Design, in: Christoph Lorey, John L. Plews (ed.), Why German Matters in Popular Culture, Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 34, 2000, No.3 (Winter 2000), pp. 43-58.

Material Aesthetics and Spatial Continuum, in: H.M.Nelte (ed.), Interior Design in Germany, Wiesbaden 2000, pp.5-6.

Joachim Schmid's Archiv, in: History of Photography 24.2000.3.255-261. Entry and View, in: Exh.cat. City-Index, Dresden 2000, pp.38-49.

Baroque Cities under the American Night in Space, in: 45th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Festival Catalogue 1999, pp.83-86.

Images on Buildings, in: Exh.cat. Reconstructing Space : Architecture in Recent German Photography, AA London, Cambrigde MA : MIT Press, 1999, pp.28-31.

On Talking and Photographing, in: exh.cat. Inge Morath, The Life of a Photographer, Vienna Munich 1999, pp.17-26.

On Thinking in Pictures, An Essay on Design Images and Image Design, in: form diskurs, Journal of Design and Design Theory 4.1999.7.4-9. "Graphic Thinking Bears the Danger of Manipulation", Interview with Arthur P.Schmidt, in: form diskurs 4.1999.7.44-49.

Klaus Honnef, Rolf Sachsse, Karin Thomas (ed.), German photography 1870-1970, The Power of a Medium, New Haven CT : Yale University Press 1997. The Quest for Quality in Art and Media, in: ZKM (ed.), Media Art Perspectives, Stuttgart : edition Cantz, 1996, pp.166-173.