Österreich: Ein Neues Paradigma (Austria: A New Paradigm)

After the development of an autonomous photography community in
Austria, the dominant paradigm was "Author Photography". Since
the mid-80s it has been (again) increasingly replaced by the
paradigm of fine art: no longer is photography per se the first
priority, but rather its meaning within artistic reflection and
practice. The "classic" applications are relativized in favor of
intermedial, multimedial and installational strategies, and its
phantasmagoric potential is activated. The author traces this
development, and introduces the Austrian visual artists
published in this issue of European Photography: Sabine Bitter
(1960), Thomas Freiler (1962), Rupert Larl (1950), Wilfried
Mayrus (1953), Walter K. Mirtl (1959), Michaela Moscouw (1961),
Günther Selichar (1960), Andrea Sodomka (1961) and Robert Waldl
(1958).


Citaten:
Honnef, K.: Thesis on Author Photography (in: Symposium Photography, 1979)
Weiermair, P.: Kunst mit Fotografie (in: Geschichte der Phot. in Österr. 1983)
Müller-Pohle, A.: Information Strategies (Eur. Phot. 1985, 21)
Aigner, C.: Im Bilde exh.cat. (1991)