Fotografie - Geschichte - Geschichte der Fotografie. Interview mit Ruggiero Romano, Januar 1987. (Photography - History - History of Photography)

This interview poses several more theoretical questions concerning the problems
of making major syntheses on historical issues, and referring to the
(im)possibilities of writing such a comprehensive history of photography at
this moment. Romano answers that he counted some 62 disciplines that ought to
be reviewed on their relationship to photography. On the other hand national as
well as local histories of photography are lacking, and some are fragmented and
inhomogenous. The article ends with a sharp remark of Romano: ""Photography is
text. And text has to been in its context. But the context of photography is
never photographic''. (German)