Fotografie als Fanal der Freiheit (Photography as a Lighthouse of Freedom)

Reply to a letter by Jan Thorn-Prikker entitled "Fotografie als
Kunst der Verdrängung" in der Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
31-12-1990, (in which Thorn-Prikker critically examined
Steinert's aesthetics and personality.) The author accuses
Thorn-Prikker of a lack of knowledge of the personal biography
of Steinert, denunciating the argument of Steinert's "blindness"
for the documentary, by noting several documentary projects of
Steinert. He also criticizes Thorn-Prikker's sweeping argument
which "demasks" all abstract painting (and abstract subjektive
Fotografie) as "repression" (Verdrängung).