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Since 1980, the magazine Camera Austria International has given its readers insights into important debates on the role of photography as a medium and practice of contemporary art and presents outstanding artists who have made extraordinary contributions to the constant further development of the medium. The magazine is not primarily committed to being up-to-date, but provides materials that remain important as sources as part of longer-term and lasting discourses. Over the years, this has resulted in an – at times surprising – archive and reference work on contemporary photography.
The core of the bilingual (German/English) magazine continues to consist of monographic articles about artists who are crucial for a current view of photography. In addition, young international positions are presented in the Forum section - often in cooperation with curators, teachers or artists - who are still little known but already show an extraordinary profile. The structure of the magazine is rounded off by a profiled overview of current international exhibitions and recently published books. Camera Austria International
leaves once a yearthe classic structure of the magazine to invite artists to be guest editors and in this context to penetrate a topic with an artistic and theoretical focus.

The exhibition program with a focus on solo exhibitions mostly shows long-term projects developed specifically for Camera Austria. The respective artistic positions mark important image-political issues and mark out a broad field of research into the photographic image on different levels: the ghosts of the archives, questions of knowledge production, the construction of identities, artistic research, feminist criticism, the reconstruction of history or the Erosion of social utopias. The common framework of these positions and projects is possibly to maintain the social relevance of the photographic image and not just to examine its cultural role.

Camera Austria has been publishing exhibition catalogs and books in the Camera Austria Edition since 1977 , with a focus on Austrian artists. These are created in close cooperation with the artists, give an overview of their work for the first time or present new projects. In addition to monographic books, he also produces publications that have their starting point in Camera Austria exhibition projects.

Every two years since 1989, an international jury has awarded the Camera Austria Prize for contemporary photography from the city of Graz to an artist who has published an outstanding contribution in the magazine. The award is one of the most valuable prizes for artistic photography in Europe. The first winner in 1989 was Nan Goldin, followed by Olivier Richon, Seiichi Furuya, David Goldblatt, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Allan Sekula, Aglaia Konrad, Walid Raad, Marika Asatiani, Sanja Iveković, Heidrun Holzfeind, Joachim Koester, Annette Kelm, Jochen Lempert, Lebohang Kganye and Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski.

In 2001, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu entrusted Camera Austria with his entire archive of photographs taken during his field research in Algeria between 1958 and 1961, with the aim of making these photographs accessible to the public for the first time in an exhibition and publication. In collaboration with the Fondation Pierre Bourdieu, these photographs were viewed, structured and have since been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide and published in a monograph that has meanwhile been translated into many languages.

With over 10,000 monographs, exhibition catalogs and reference works as well as more than 6,000 titles from around 70 magazines, our public library in Graz has an outstanding journalistic cross-section of photography since the 1970s – including numerous out-of-print publications and artist books . The library thus offers the opportunity to research the diverse links between photography and contemporary art against an international background.

In 2017, Camera Austria digitized and published a large part of the project archive for the years 1974 - 2002. This makes Camera Austria one of the few, if not the only institution in the field of contemporary art in Austria that makes its archive publicly available in a reference collection in the study library.

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OUR POCKETKAMERA 1985 by Seiichi Furuya

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OUR POCKETKAMERA 1985 by Seiichi Furuya [SIGNED]

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