“The Power of the Photo Club Network: Connecting Photographers Across Ideological Divides and Political Borders,” an invited talk at the Baruch College, Global Student Certificate program, part of the "World Cultures, World Arts Series"
Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 1 pm
More details about the event: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/globalstudentcertificate/world-cultures-world-arts-series-2024-2025/
Thank you to Sarah Demetz and Vanessa Troiano for organizing this fabulous series and inviting me to present my work to the Global Student Certificate program students.
Abstract:
Through the exhibition history of one print, this talk examines the power of the photo club network—a global system of self-curated, self-financed, and self-edited publications, exhibitions, and competitions that connected photographers across ideological divides and political borders throughout the twentieth century.
Double Profile (1942) by German-Argentine photographer Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005) is an example of her signature style, which involved the motif of the double and the technique of combination printing—a creative method that she developed in her work for illustrated magazines in the 1940s.
Heinrich was an accomplished portrait, theater, and cinema photographer whose portraits of glamorous celebrities regularly appeared on the covers of Argentina’s major illustrated magazines. In addition to her successful professional career, Heinrich was also a dedicated participant in photo club culture. Her dedication is embodied in a unique collage that documents the global travels of Double Profile during the 1940s and 1950s through international photo club exhibitions in Latin America, the USA, Europe, and Asia.
In conversation with a forthcoming major exhibition “Global Pictorialism” at Tate Modern in London (2026), this talk highlights the legacy of the photo club network.
